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...sentimentalized, but comfortable in its coherence. Characters slipped along easily from book to book, much as they do in the vaster schemes of Trollope. In Crampton Hodnet (written around 1940 but prepared for publication only now by Pym's literary executor), one comes upon two old friends from Jane and Prudence (1953), tyrannical old Miss Doggett and her younger paid companion, the self-effacing Miss Morrow. Their props and surroundings are familiar too: the excellent women "full of good sense," the pampered Anglican priests, the warmth of a musquash coat, the bedtime balm of Ovaltine, the ultimate taste test -- does...
...some things are altered. In Jane and Prudence, the ladies live, appropriately, in an anonymous village. In this book Pym places them a bit awkwardly in the academic setting of Oxford, where she herself was educated. Miss Doggett is about the same, a tactless, sanctimonious bully robed in purple and decorated with bespoke hats. The feather-light Crampton Hodnet is about three brief romances, two of which Miss Doggett tries to meddle with and one that she misses completely, although it involves her companion and the curate who boards with...
...actually been a wonderful year for musicals. Indeed, with just a little stretching of the Tony rules, a whole stageful of prizes could have been bestowed. Best new musical: Zip! Goes a Million. Best actress: Judy Kaye as the Gay Nineties chanteuse in Sweet Adeline. Best supporting actress: Jane Connell as the inebriated Quaker aunt in Oh, Boy! Best eccentric dance: Mia Dillon for her daft balloon ballet in Music in the Air. Best orchestrations: John McGlinn for Leave It to Jane. Best book and lyrics: Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse for Oh, Lady! Lady! Best composer: Jerome Kern...
...Sheridan's School for Scandal, the prologue clucks hypocritically about rumormongering: "Caus'd by a dearth of scandal, should the vapours/ Distress our fair ones -- let 'em read the papers." That advice is still being followed at supermarket check-out counters. In Jane Austen's Persuasion, a shut-in hears neighborhood news: "Call it gossip if you will; but when nurse Rooke has half an hour's leisure to bestow on me, she is sure to have something to relate that is entertaining and profitable, something that makes one know one's species better." What the invalid learns is that...
With a down-to-earth air, the 22-year-old explains that her naturalistic yearnings began while exploring forests near her home and leading field trips through a wildlife park. Jamie R. Jenkins '85, a four-year roommate of Rosegrant, recalls noticing tinges of the anthropologist/explorer Jane Goodall in her cohabitant. "We all swore that she would go to Borneo with an anthropologist to study primates...