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Crossing the chasm between high school and Harvard often converts the all-round boy into the Lamont Lodger or the House Hermit. The Lamont Lodger is overwhelmed, either in awe or fear, by the Academic Opportunities the College offers, and he takes what he thinks to be the best advantage of them. The House Hermit, while resisting the academic pressures, hesitates to jeopardize grades by getting involved in something besides them; in fact, he hesitates three and a half years until he wakes up one morning and finds himself turned into an IBM card...
...both proselytes are betrayed by their family background. Young Thompson's mother is taking on with a lodger, and in destroying the lover's symbol of superiority, his car, the lad is badly burned. Fifteen-year-old Shirley (Sarah Miles) has been starved of love by her family; she lets a gentleness on Weir's part toward her desires to learn kindle a puerile passion for him. The passion must be dashed, and the result is an unpleasant trial of the teacher for indecent assault. Acquittal does not save Prometheus's reputation, and Weir is forced to destroy one principle...
When the family takes in a lodger, he is appalled at the Baineses' isolation. He asks why there are no newspapers or radio. why the windows are always sealed and the doors bolted. "We're right inside ourselves," Mrs. Baines explains, "and nobody'll ever get in and pull us out." The lodger lures Joshua and Winifred out for walks, but they cannot wait to get back to punishing and being punished...
...there are occasional glimpses of their pathetic longing for a better life. For all his disgust, the lodger finds it difficult to leave this house, and so, implies Hanley. would anybody. For this is no unique madhouse; as Author Hanley sees it, it is the human condition...
...doesn't do to go against public opinion," an old friend whispers in Rade's ear, warning him that his fellow office workers are about to turn on him. His landlady talks in cipher to his fellow lodger, using "big, strong, black and forceful words, always heavy, coarse, masculine nouns, signifying something huge, strong and powerful, which reminded me of the whale." In horror he finds whales swimming into his own conversation-"a whale of a time," "the Prince of Wales." Martyrdom's Delusion. In this superb social satire, Erih Kos, himself a Yugoslav bureaucrat, dissects...