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Ronald M. Ferry '12, Master of Winthrop House, yesterday named two graduating seniors as joint recipients of the first annual David J. Hanson Award...
...Award was recently established in memory of a member of the House and Class of '52 who died last year. Hanson was a leader of activities at Winthrop...
NECESSARY EVIL: THE LIFE OF JANE WELSH CARLYLE (618 pp.)-Lawrence & Ellsabefh Hanson-Macmillan...
...decade has passed without fresh information (mostly in the form of letters), with the result that the Carlyles have begun to look like a pair of corpses which are constantly being re-exhumed to see which one had the arsenic. The virtue of this new disinterment by Lawrence & Elisabeth Hanson (who did a similar post-mortem on The Four Brontës) is that it is thorough; no one will have much excuse for doing it again...
What held these two utterly different, passionately neurotic human beings together? The Authors Hanson, themselves a husband & wife team, approach the racked double bed of the Carlyle marriage with the serenity of Harley Street specialists, noting every hypochondriacal toss, turn and outburst with cool professional attention. They point out the more admirable aspects of the case-Jane's struggle to put up with her husband's cantankerous restlessness, her bottomless faith in his genius; Thomas' "absolutely unseducible" loyalty to his wife, his habit of rising to grave occasions with awe-inspiring kindliness...