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Esther Greenwood in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar stands on the sun roof of the Amazon Hotel for single girls and lets fly with her forty dollar city dresses into the New York City night. She and cloven other college girls had won a month with a well-known women's fashion magazine, and now they were all going back home. For Esther it was home to her mother and a New England suburb for the summer. She was quitting the city and she hadn't even found a drink she liked, "My dream was ordering a drink...
...didn't work. And then she tried different ways of killing herself and one way worked better than the other so they put her away. As Sylvia Plath says in her poem "Daddy," "They pulled me out of the sack, And they stuck me together with glue." The Bell Jar is a description of their jar of glue and the way their fusty inept hands fumbled Esther's embarrassed and bruised parts. Her hilarity is as black as it is defiant; she refuses to be retrieved...
...Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a very different kind of Republican. The presents people brought had a lot in common-stuffed elephants and teething rings, diaper pins and diapers decorated with the Confederate flag, a copy of Winnie-the-Pooh. There was ice cream, of course, and a jar of wheat germ labeled "Strom's secret formula." Thurmond's second wife, 24, is about to present the 68-year-old Senator with his first child. Said he modestly: "I feel very honored...
Then, by good luck, in came an old lady of seventy, going to spend a week with her niece. She had three trunks, two carbet-bags, a band-box, an umbrella, a bundle of clothes, a parasol, a bundle of tracts, a jar of pickles, some pepper-mints, a few odd parcels, the usual squalling baby, and a few other indispensable. Of course I was only too happy to help her in any way, i. c. look after her ticket, seat, trunks, parcels, grandson, etc. To cut short, at last the conductor gave us a good start, and we wheezed...
...furor, Congress seems unlikely to order any curtailment of Section 235. The program has broad bipartisan support, partly because it provides low-income families with housing at considerably less cost to taxpayers than public housing projects. The disclosures, however, may jar the FHA into taking a more protective attitude toward low-income families that buy houses. One complaint in the study involved a Washington, D.C., woman who made a deal to pay $14,000 for a house that had changed hands three weeks earlier for only $7,100. It was in such bad shape that embarrassed FHA officials last week...