Word: garrets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rugby squad yesterday elected Terrence S. Turner '57, of Adams House and Garret Park, Md., as captain for the fall season. Alastair J. C. E. Rellie '58, of Eliot House and Bronxville, N.Y., was elected vice-captain...
...their individualism. They take pride in it; as a tourist attraction and source material for novels, they consider themselves one of France's national assets. Outsiders have long accepted their eccentricities and ascribed them simply to bohemianism. A young man or woman who lived in a fifth-floor garret, dressed like a Basque fisherman and sported an outrageous hairdo, was expected to be glamorously undernourished and suspected of harboring tuberculosis. But otherwise their elders were more worried about their morals than their health. Now, it seems, the diagnosis must be changed: far too many of the students of Paris...
...points. Bob is pictured as a ne'er-do-well cartoonist and psychopathic coward who has turned to an analyst for help because Bromo Seltzer has failed him. Reduced to painting nudes on ties and landscapes on the backs of turtles, Hope is visited in his garret by a dazzling blonde (Eva Marie Saint) who used to be his wife and is now engaged to George Sanders, a moneyed comic-strip artist whose ego contains more hot air than a Turkish bath...
...from literature's dustiest attic, and Physician Cronin uses every cliche of this oft-told tale with the almost touching innocence of new discovery, right down to the mustiest of them all-the notion that a man cannot possibly be a genuine genius unless he starves in a garret...
Prophet of P.P. Fired from his bookstore job. Gordon at last gets a bellyful of real poverty. He spends most of his time lying on a foul mattress and staring at the ceiling. He watches the bugs march in stately procession round his garret-but not very often, because the room is so ice-cold that the bugs feel cozier in the woodwork. At this point of the story, Novelist Orwell has more than driven home his point: "To abjure money is to abjure life." Man's first duty is to get himself "bound up in the bundle...