Word: hanley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ANNE HANLEY The Bronx...
...Cliffies or no, undergraduate life is not the same at New Haven and Cambridge. One contributing influence is the proximity of Yale to New York as compared with the proximity of Harvard to Boston. Yale's former President Hanley once joked that the university's medical school had trouble because "the people in New Haven are so healthy, and the divinity school is faced with the problem of a town devoid of sin, or other elusive elements of life, inevitably leads him to New York...
...BEGINNING (315 pp.)-James Hanley-Horizon Press...
...James Hanley is the kind of Irishman who gives the impression that his life has been a knockdown, drag-out fight with reality. To enter his literary world is to enter a dark room in which at first the sparse furniture seems made of human bones. But as the slow light comes up through the long narrative, it is made clear that the ribs on the wall are a hatrack, that the upended coffin is a wardrobe and the skull under the bed is a more commonplace utensil...
Among novelists, James Hanley, 57, is a rare bird of dark plumage. A child of the Dublin slums, he educated himself between odd jobs (railway porter, cook, butcher, postman), went to sea and found no romance in it. His history and temperament have preserved him from the British novelist's preoccupation with class and the detail of social life. He writes with no special idiom or accent about the human condition. Hanley has been obsessed by his purblind Furys for a quarter of a century. (This volume is the fifth installment of their saga, the third to be published...