Word: goulding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strong individualist (to put it mildly), Gould, known among other things as the "last of the bohemians," has little respect for the conventions of society. His habits and routine are strictly his own, dictated solely by unpredictable impulse...
...these days, someone is going to write an article on Joseph Ferdinand Gould '11 for the Reader's Digest. It will be entitled "The Most Unforgettable Character I have Met" and it will present Joe Gould as an unusual but lovable old man. Joe Gould is not a lovable...
People at arty New York cocktail parties think the bearded man in the shabby clothes who is sometimes invited is a hum, but unlike the other residents of the Bowery, Gould is not a shambling, blank-expressioned alcoholic. He has a spark of vigor--some people call it exhibitionism--and a broad Harvard A that sets him apart from the rest...
Taking time out from his massive life work, "An Oral History of Our Time," the Village Herodotus has written a monologue on "Why Princeton Should Be Abolished," which he hopes to have published in the near future, perhaps in the Saturday Review of Literature. Gould reasons along hitherto untried lines: "Princeton was originally the college of New Jersey, and in New Jersey people put tomatoes in their clam chowder." Therefore Princeton should be abolished...
Extraordinarily responsive to alcohol, Gould once gave gin its free rein, but now he's on the wagon. He claims he'll stay away from hard liquor until his ninetieth birthday; "then I'm going to get drunk and stay that way, even if it kills me." But the way things look now, nicotine may get him before alcohol...