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...Brightness Falls," by Geoffrey Bush '51, makes as good an example as any. It is about the miserable effect as unsuccessful coming-out has on the creature who came out. Mr. Bush has a sense of character and he has a sense of narrative. But he confuses his reader far too often. He doesn't make his setting clear soon enough. He doesn't make his shifts from mood to mood easy enough to follow. And he doesn't quite manage to get across just what was wrong with the party, or with the girl, or with the girl...
Hocked to the Ears. As an example of what they will find, a TIME correspondent last week reported the plight of Geoffrey Jackson,* 39, sales manager for a London food concern. Geoffrey has an attractive 30-year-old wife, Mary, and a three-month-old baby girl, Jean. Son of a prosperous wholesale grocer in Shropshire, Geoffrey had a solid upbringing and a good education...
...When Geoffrey and Mary married, in 1938, they had a snug life. They paid $7 a week for their house in Surrey, went to theaters and movies, treated themselves to an occasional night on the town in London, entertained friends at home, ran a small...
...Geoffrey earns $60 a week. They live in a pleasant, tree-lined suburban road at Heston, in a house with three bedrooms and two living rooms. Geoffrey hocked himself to the ears to buy the house. Before the war, it would have cost $3,800; as it was, it cost $9,600. Geoffrey put down $400 saved from his war pay, borrowed $4,800 from a building society and another $4,400 from an uncle...
...week, Geoffrey pays $10 in government taxes and $16 to the building society. He allows himself $5 for lunches-which means, he says, "either I give myself a good feed and nothing to drink, or sandwiches and a pint of wallop [beer]." Mary spends $12 a week for food (50% more than prewar), $4 for local taxes, light and heat. Their 23? meat ration lasts for only two meals, so Mary supplements it with items like mushrooms and canned salmon. This is costly but the Jacksons consider it an investment in good health...