Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eventually, the compulsive fires had to burn down. In their last years together, Hannah reports, "it was harvest time for Paulus and me. I felt compassion for Paulus, I could enjoy him again... (We) indulged in a new, secret marriage pact...
Sally remains in the misery and degradation of Willowbrook while I enjoy the comforts of a Harvard education. There is no way to justify the radical diversity in our positions. The fact that she is retarded and I am "normal" explains nothing. We are both human in a moral and personal way, and that I should enjoy all the fruits and comforts of humanity and she none remains mystifying...
MOON CHILDREN, by Michael Weller. This is really fine--funny, sad, and as accurate a portrayal of student life as you're likely to see on the stage. If you already know what student life is like, but don't object to good comedies, you'll enjoy it anyway, 7:30 at the New Theater, 12 Holyoke Street...
...students are of both sexes, the encyclopedia salesman's envy soars still higher, but I don't think Weller thinks that's the core of it. To people like the encyclopedia salesman -- constrained by economic necessity to spend much or most of their time doing things they do not enjoy for businesses they neither control nor profit from -- just living away from home, attaining even just the semblance of control over one's own life seems an unimaginable emancipation...
Until that day comes, we can be glad of the grace and wit with which Moonchildren's students enjoy their irrelevance. It would be unwise to assume, I might add, that the cat who doesn't live in the house is not going to turn...