Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Househunting in St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands and finishing a new book, Manhattan-bred Novelist Herman (Marjorie Mornings tar) Woulc acknowledged that he had sold his New York apartment, described his new environment in terms ("peaceful," "superb climate") seldom hung on his native city.
Speaking first was novelist Andrew Lytle, who discussed the environment which the South has inherited. Lytle's talk was followed by Elliott's reading of three of his unpublished poems, including "Armageddon."
Author Alpert, 41, who has written for magazines as dissimilar as The New Yorker and Seventeen, has some difficulty totting up the reasons for Sally's amoral behavior. He gets in a few licks at "progressive" education, cuttingly describes the "intellectual bohemianism" of Sally's environment, and then...
But summer school types presented a problem with which Vag had never before been confronted. Like the girl he had met at the dance, the one who claimed she was schizophrenic. "Half the time I'm involved with myself; the rest of the time I am involved with my environment...
So, confined by his own choosing in a world where all taste was poor taste, Vag naturally felt sullen. To belong in such an environment would require too much of a sacrifice. The inhibited perspective cultivated since school days was too ingrained to be surmounted. And the healthy pre-occupations...