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...self-governing terms, the play is vivid and often impressive. And unlike the book, it is not rampantly autobiographical, not literally self-centered. The Eugene Gant who is Thomas Wolfe, imprisoned though he may feel, impassioned though he may grow, is less the protagonist, more just part of a memorable tribe. There is the well-meaning, property-loving, family-exploiting, sympathy-maneuvering mother. There is the lusty ruin of a father, with a heroic gift for drink and denunciation, and a sense of values for all his violences. There is Eugene's snappish, put-upon sister; there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 9, 1957 | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

Higher Law. In San Pedro, Calif., after he shot and seriously wounded Robert Gant in a quarrel over a 50? debt, Army Sergeant Frederic W. West, 24, explained loftily to police: "I didn't shoot him for the 50? he owed me, but for the principle of the thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 18, 1955 | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

...which he had most often transcended the limitations of his being. In his concept of home, Wolfe's mother and father have a dominant role. His mother, despite her avarice, seemed to signify to Wolfe the durability and fertility of the earth itself, while his father--the W. O. Gant of Look Homeward, Angel, is the "Far Wanderer," the forever unsatisfied, Odysseus-like figure. Between these two forces, Wolfe saw himself poised, and his continual efforts to formularize these stresses into a concerted philosophy mark many of the conflicts which rage in his works...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intimations of Immortality | 5/20/1955 | See Source »

Also named were Donald R. Gant, of the University of Pennsylvania, and Neptune, N.J.; Frank S. Gibbs, of Kings College, and Bockenham, Kent, England; Vincent M. Jolivet, of McGill, and Shawiningan Falls, Canada; Kenneth Kriegel, of Columbia and Englewood, N.J.; George H. Martin, of Williams, and Gleucoe, Ill.; Sidney R. Knafel '52 of Mount Vernon, N.Y.; Walter J. Salmon of The College of the City of New York and Manhattan; John P. Williamson, of the University of Toronto, and Toronto...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 15 B-School Men Win Baker Prizes | 10/1/1953 | See Source »

...only other Eli regulars in the Class of 1951 are quarterback Stu Tisdale, end Warren Gant, and tackles Walt Clemens, Rufus Phillips, and Joe Finnegan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Football Team Chooses Quackenbush 1950 Captain | 11/22/1949 | See Source »

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