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...Overseers are: Helen H. Gilbert '36, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Radcliffe; Louis W. Cabot '48, a Boston industrialist: Wade H. MoCree Jr., a Detroit judge: Donald Kennedy '52, a professor; and John J. Iselin '56, the former nation editor of Newsweek...
Like Addonizio, the voters make clear that race is for many the principal issue. Says Jean Damidio, a white housewife: "It's a battle for survival." Adds Helen Reichenbacher, the wife of a city policeman: "I've got a $35,000 house. If we get a black mayor, it isn't worth a quarter." Addonizio's trial? "Everyone's corrupt in a job like that," says the policeman's wife. On the other side, Housewife Jennie Smith says: "I'm voting for Gibson because he's black...
...botched his first marriage long ago. He is separated from his second wife, Helen, one of those eager Midwestern emigrees who dote on Eastern intellectuals. He honed her critical intelligence to a straight-razor edge, and then his Galatea cut him up. Sheed scarcely needs to imply that two first-rate critics in one house is a brief description of hell...
After so many hours, lives, speeches spent, Thus once again says Nestor from the Greeks: Deliver Helen, and all damage else, As honor, loss of time, travail, expense... Shall be struck...
Troilus screams that the worth of Helen is infinite, which means indeterminate, capable of justifying the furthest thrill of insanity. He believes he is realistic when he calls for the preservation of "manhood and honor" by the vigorous prosecution of an irreversible war. That war is stark violence. Does this begin to sound compellingly relevant? As litility devours reason, the Renaissance heroic ideal of wise action becomes food for unheroic savagery. Troilus eats up reason in seeking honor as "the wide world's revenue." Hector dimly sees that appealing to infinite abstractions may insensibly transform public standards into an anarchy...