Word: nathaneal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Toys from Anti-Santa. Nathan Bond, Author Wilson's protagonist, runs true to formula. In most disenchantment novels, the hero is a non-hero who attends an Ivy League college (Nathan goes to Yale), where he is traumatically snubbed because he lacks good looks or money, the two top things, as F. Scott Fitzgerald put it. Lacking popularity, the non-hero decides to be different (Nathan wants to be an artist), but he invariably deserts his goal and runs rabbit-scared for life's lettuce (Nathan becomes a cartoonist and creates a Chaplinesque tramp called "Rollo the Magnificent...
...properly launched on his affluent career, otherwise known as the rat race, he must have a mate so that he can share his disenchantment. Early snapshots of his beloved are etched indelibly in the non-hero's mind, partly because he always lives his life flashbackwards. Nathan is forever recalling Amy arched against the sky on a diving board at poolside on her aunt's rambling estate. In disenchantment novels, these rambling estates are the toys of a gracious childhood soon to be whisked away by that legendary anti-Santa, the '29 crash. Nathan has his losses...
...Once Nathan's cartooning clicks, he and Amy move to Connecticut, where non-heroes almost always live. The couple has the standard nonheroic family, one boy, one girl. Nathan eventually makes $100,000 a year, above par for a non-hero, but the tax bite devours his bank balance. After a few years of this and nearly two decades of marriage, Nathan discovers, with the customary belated double take of the non-hero, that he does not know his wife, his children, or himself...
...dining hall, Adams also an impressive, if far too brightly Othello. Daniel Seltzer, instructor English, directed and played the of Iago--much more slowly than had ever heard but very subtly. In title role, John W. Nathan '61 veyed a surprising amount of its and Judith Ogden '62 a more than adequate Desdemons...
President and Mrs. Nathan M. Pusey will be at home at 17 Quincy Street from four to six o'clock on the first Sunday of each month, beginning November 6. Members of the faculties and others holding Corporation appointments and their wives or husbands are cordially invited...