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...Cousin Harriet, here is the Boston Evening Transcript...
...Walter B. Pitkin; when his girl friend tells him she has dreamed of snakes, his eyebrows almost scalp him. His mannerisms, down to the last flickering cheek-muscle, were learned at the movies; he is as full of polysyllables as a colored preacher. His girl, at the start, is Harriet Stevens, who hopes to become a concert pianist and whose mother is in the Social Register. He and Harriet "explore each other's minds," "experiment" in hypnosis, ether-sniffing and allied presexual sports. Their relationship is an unconscious parody of every style in love from "the scientific attitude" through...
...small earnings are wholly focussed on the floats, canoes, club dances, coving (river talk for necking et seq.} and races. To Ralph they represent that lowbrow, duty-destroying athletic aristocracy among whom most "nice" boys long to qualify. He wants intensely to be accepted as a rat. Harriet, who knows on which side of the tracks her future lies, wants him not to. Then Dutchy appears. A nice, hard blonde, the daughter of a fireman who drowns in the Charles, Dutchy is the essence of river-rattism Ralph is torn between Dutchy and Harriet; he lies elaborately...
...joint concerts with groups from other colleges, the orchestra will perform five chorals, among them being DeBussy's. "Blessed Damosel" to be played with Sweet Briar College; Nagle's "Solitary Reaper"; "The Artisan," by Harriet Ware; and the "Messiah," by Handel...
...reach the President's nostrils, but now, under the indivisible fellow named Knudsenhillman - capital & labor, $1-a-year and New Deal-the confusion had at least been departmentalized, into Priorities, Purchases, Production. Filed for future reference were $1-a-yearling Ralph Budd (transportation), and three New Dealers, Harriet Elliott (consumers), Chester C. Davis (agriculture), and Leon Henderson (prices). Henderson, a pigeon who hates holes, and who somehow had gotten on excellent terms with the $1-men, refused to be filed, sulked off to Florida for a sun tan and some long thoughts...