Word: lives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Freshmen might be able to move in late in March or early in April," according to White. He noted that those who decide to live in will be required to pay rents from the time they assume occupancy until the end of the year...
...chamber, "are not free peoples. A stagnant and impoverished country cannot uphold democratic institutions. On the contrary, it is fertile soil for anarchy and dictatorship." At the National Press Club he made his point again: "The United States cannot stand aloof from the fact that almost 200 million individuals live in poverty on our continent...
...Conn., bought a house with a swimming pool, and made big money (more than $10,000 a script). Like Ernie, he fired his old agent, although the separation was more or less amicable. Unlike Ernie, he is still happily married. Perhaps like Ernie, he feels harried by having to live up in every script to his first big success. Says he: "One of the basic problems in this industry is that it never trains people for success. Suddenly everything's all whipped cream and marshmallows and mink coats and swimming pools. You can't throw this down...
Dima is half child. He loves Carmian, yet is capable of beating her up. They live in poverty. She has a miscarriage. He never manages to get the divorce from his wife that he has promised. Their life is drunken, pointless; it lacks everything except passion and a kind of intermittent gentleness that at its best seems better than the best kind of conventional security. But Carmian finally learns that a lover who lives from day to day and embrace to embrace can only end by becoming a burden...
Grace Notes. Betjeman both likes and deplores the sad, cramped lives of city suburbs. His own life is cramped by book reviewing (London Daily Telegraph), a trade he detests, but he has managed some grace notes. His Berkshire country home is an old rectory in Wantage, birthplace of Alfred the Great. There his busy wife Penelope (daughter of Field Marshal Lord Chetwode) hunts and fishes with Pam-like energy, keeps an eye on their son and daughter and runs a thriving tea shop called King Alfred's Kitchen. She puts up jam; he musingly produces about one poem every...