Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monro became president of the new daily, called the Journal, which included on its masthead such present greats in the editorial world as E. J. Kahn '37 of the New Yorker and Joseph J. Thorndike, Jr. '34 managing editor of Life. Despite a brave start, the paper was forced out of business after a few weeks by debts and the difficulties of competition with an established monopoly...
Heads v. Walls. In Point of No Return, readers will find the most skillful elaboration of the typical Marquand novel theme. Charley Gray, the boy from Spruce Street, does well enough in life, but there are some things he cannot attain when he most wants to, some things he can never attain. He cannot close the gap between Spruce Street and aristocratic Johnson Street in his boyhood town of Clyde, Mass, (for which, perhaps, read Newburyport). Jessica Lovell lived on Johnson Street and was in love with Charley Gray, but it was clear from the start that snobbery wouldn...
Many readers will feel that they would gladly swap places with Charley and take their chances on happiness. Novelist Marquand is pretty sure that they would wind up with the same empty feeling. Says he: "Everybody says 'life is what you make it' and it seems to me, by God, it's mostly environment you're coping with and you have mighty little chance to make it yourself. I don't see that many people are particularly captains of their fate. They bat it out, but do they really get what they want...
...noted the superiority of a critical academic approach to American life, rather than the use of propaganda as a method to create understanding between European countries and the United States...
...French student of literature who spent a summer at the Seminar said, "with respect to American life of today I can say that the Seminar has been the best teacher I have ever had, and that it is the best way to make people of every nation understand each other...