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Dormitory representatives also announced recently: Miriam-Ann Fleck '64, Margaret von Szeliski '64, Barnard; Nancy H. Doe '64, Bertram; Carol D. Goodman '64, Aimee M. Wilson '64, Briggs Elizabeth M. Denny '66, Nancy K. Nichols '64, Camille F. Staciva '65, Cabot; Janet B. Darley '63, Virginia S. Jordan '64, Mary F. Winsor '65, Comstock; man '64, Emily L. Delman '66, Norris '65, Holmes; Helen S. Miranda C. Sampsell '65, man '65, Moors; Evelyn R. Rosamond Welchman...
...early twenties. Within the first ten minutes one grasps all of the important relationships of the drama: the abandonment of Walter Morel by his wife and sons, who detest him because of his weakness and cruelty; Paul's desperate attachment to his mother, and his frustrated love for Miriam. The film then concentrates on the final failure of Miriam to break through Mrs. Morel's hold on her son, Paul's unsuccessful affair with Clara Dawes and his final liberation through his mother's death...
...Morel family saga (as well as many of the lesser characters) is well justified, for the structure of the novel emerges all the more clearly. With considerable skill, he balances Mrs. Morel's almost morbid domination of Paul's sensitive and passionate nature with the physical inhibitions produced in Miriam by her mother's puritanical beliefs. The novel is rather humorless; Cardiff creates several badly needed moments of comic relief--such as an address from a stout suffragette. Most important, he never loses sight of Mrs. Morel; her influence pervades the film at every turn...
...dabbling in mysticism?and incidents in the author's life turn up later in his fiction. Like the Glass children, Salinger was born in New York to a Jewish father and a Christian mother (to soothe her in-laws-to-be, Scotch-Irish Marie Jillich changed her name to Miriam when she married Sol Salinger). But Sol was, and is, a prosperous importer of hams and cheeses, and any connection he or Miriam ever had with show business is well hidden by the Salinger counterintelligence apparatus...
After 30 years at Ohio's Oberlin College. John C. Kennedy, 57, last week left his job as alumni recorder, rented his 15-acre farm, and drove off with his schoolteacher wife, Miriam, 53, to join the U.S. Peace Corps. At Pennsylvania State University, the Kennedys began a seven-week cram course with 153 other recruits from 42 states, the biggest single corps group yet launched. Their goal: two-year jobs as teachers' aides in the rural Philippines. "All our lives we've wanted to do something like this," said Quaker Kennedy. "We've talked about...