Word: lowder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While through a plexiglass window passers-by watched the hole grow, others watched the destruction of Hunt Hall with interest--and perhaps a tear or two. Film teacher Stan Lowder described the building as one of "dignity, of a type that will never be built again." The building was razed despite the protests of a committee of faculty and students to "Save Hunt Hall...
During this present novel, even affectionate readers will have a hard time remembering what it is that often makes Auchincloss worth bothering about. The story, written at the level of what used to be called women's magazine fiction, concerns the downfall and upfall of Tony Lowder, a decent, attractive and rather priggish young lawyer with political ambitions. To help a feckless law partner who is in financial trouble, and because there seems no reason not to, Lowder accepts a bribe from a Mafia-connected moneyman whose activities are under investigation. The novel follows the muscular workings...