Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happened to read this column Wednesday, you may remember that I swore to find out more about that Radcliffe Freshman. Here's the straight word. But first, just to freshen up your memory on her, she was the one a friend of mine overheard saying, at a Phillips Brooks House tea, that she came to Radcliffe because it's three hours from New Haven, switched from French to Drama soon after arriving, and thinks she may now have to transfer somewhere else on account of there's no Drama course at Radcliffe...
...taken over by Juano Hernandez after Mr. Ingram's unfortunate collision with the Mann Act) is the leading character, actually he and his large-scale plans for the overthrow of the Charleston Whites are only a set-up. The man to watch is George Wilson, head slave and loyal friend to Captain Wilson, Charleston's wealthiest planter. Played adequately by John Marriott, George Wilson stands out for his inability to choose between the call of his race and the family which has reared him from birth in slavery. Educated, responsible, George, like Faust, has everything he could wish for except...
...friend of mine overheard a curious snatch of dialogue at the Phillips Brooks House tea the other afternoon. You know those teas--the ones where Radcliffe Freshmen meet Harvard Freshmen. Here's how the conversation went...
When they bought the old farm, their friend Carl Van Doren gave them curt advice: "Pave it." Instead they let their next-door neighbor work it; now the place pays. Around home Gould is a relaxed, ruminative, cigarette-puffing host, lets his handsome, smartly dressed wife do much of the talking. The Goulds entertain simply, serve "a" cocktail, and, like a good Journal family, live well within their combined salaries of around $75,000 a year...
Madeira & Marriage. At Bowdoin College Hawthorne solemnly bet his friend Jonathan Cilley a barrel of Madeira wine that he, Hawthorne, would be unmarried twelve years later. He won the bet. For a modern biographer it is almost superfluous to note the sexual distrust, as well as the calculation, in this resolve. What is more important is the lucid analysis, through fiction, that Hawthorne gave to such matters (and indeed to his whole Puritan background) in the years that followed...