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This charming book consists of impressionistic sketches of the sprawling Asian subcontinent done in the pale pastel shades of life rather than its raw primary colors. Filtered through Author (Black Narcissus) Godden's genteel mem-sahib vision, India becomes a setting instead of a place, Hindus and Moslems become figures in a tapestry instead of people, and life moves to the lute strings of poetry instead of the purse strings of necessity. As a free versifier, Author Godden ranks somewhat below another run-of-the-pagoda poet, Emperor Hirohito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mem-Sahib's Vision | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...bounded by Massachusetts Avenue and Kirkland Street; Area B, or the Harvard Yard area, bounded by Kirkland Street and the portion of Mass. Ave. extending from the Common down through the Square and off towards Boston; Area C, or the River Area, bounded by Mass. Ave., Boylston Street, and Mem Drive; and Area D, or the Business School area across the river...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Parking: Harvard's Perennial Problem | 9/25/1957 | See Source »

...weenie. Imagine that," Vag mused sadly as he drove down Mem Drive toward Boston...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Notes From Underground | 8/8/1957 | See Source »

Stephen A. Aaron followed with the Ivy Oration, in which he revealed that the setter of the Mem Hall fire was really Cesare D. Balzotti, "agent provocateur for Mr. Vellucci," discovered to be Ming Emperor Sey-Pu, whose name, unscrambled, might be easily recognized...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Overcast Skies, Anxious Parents Greet '57 Class Day Ceremonies | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

Classes eventually began, and the routine that was soon to be sharply broken began. Those who cringed with memories of the gargoyled Mem Hall as they passed forbidding Boylston took heart that their chemistry courses would be in the spanking new Mallinckrodt Laboratory instead. Wandering by the Law School, they saw the rising additions to Langdell Hall which would eventually make it "the biggest Law library in the world" Right now, however, they were not particularly interested in the Law School...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Class of '32: First Two Years | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

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