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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...
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...
...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...
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...
...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...