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...Farm Bureau president. Shuman was making his regular weekend trip home on the Panama Limited, and sat down in the dining car next to a grey-eyed blonde. The train lurched, the blonde headed for the floor, and Charlie caught her. They got to talking. Romance blossomed. She was Mabel Ervin, a farm girl from 90 miles north of Sullivan who was working as a legal secretary in Chicago and was also headed home for the weekend. They were married a year later, have a son, Freedom Fighter (j.g.) George, 8, a carbon copy of his father...
...with politics. Randolph Bourne is a lamentably deformed younger son who seeks to regain his identity at the neighbors' soirees in Greenwich village, but "to his dismay, he discovered that the girls who talked so convincingly about the 'human sex' were not interested in the art of personal relations." Mabel Dodge Luhan is a crazed and slightly nymphomaniacal auntie whose cultural and sexual cravings were never thoroughly straightened out. And D. H. Lawrence stalks through the story like a sinister foreign uncle, admonishing Mabel to "try, above all things, to be still and to contain yourself...
...Wewey looked forward to conditioning the individual mind to a degree that far surpassed the plans for their European counterparts. "For the New Radicals, conflict itself, rather than injustice or inequality, was the evil to be eradicated." Thus every emotion became subtly politicized-witness Bourne's young feminists or Mabel Luhan's flirtations with Lawrence-and the New Radical (sorry), in an effort to best his environment, confused politics with culture and corrupted culture with politics...
Before conferring the degrees, Mrs. Carl J. Gilbert, acting President of Radcliffe, announced that the names have been chosen for the college's new library study-center and first unit of the Fourth House. The Susan Morse and Frederick Whiley Hilles Library and Mabel Daniels Hall will both be dedicated in the Fall of 1966, Mrs. Gilbert said...
...ceremony introduced at the exercises, Mrs. Gilbert presented "Founders Awards" to three alumnae "who have made distinguished contributions in their fields of activity." The awards were given to Mrs. Walter B. Cannon, a civic leader; Dr. Martha M. Eliot, a leader in child welfare, and Miss Mabel Wheeler Daniels, a composer...