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...Winter of Cities is a collection of all his poems Tennessee Williams, 42, "wishes to preserve." His publisher believes that they would make him an "important poet if he had not written a line for the stage." What is nearer the truth is that their interest derives from the way they help explain the roiled and vaporous creative innards of the tortured little man who is rated the nation's No. 1 playwright by most U.S. critics...
...other sphere of uneasiness was what might be termed the social one. To many, living in or near the Square was becoming increasingly clamorous and distasteful. Yet President Lowell's House plan, which would solve matters by shifting quarters nearer the River, was a matter of acute controversy. The Class of '31 was the first to move into the new Houses--Dunster and Lowell--and it took up a serious evaluation of just what it was getting in for. As the plan took effect, the undergraduate had questions on several points, most of which seemed to center around the possibility...
...Pittsburgh's Carrick Junior High, muffed thyrsus, placed second. Natalie Sachko rolled up her sleeves and stepped up the training program, saw to it that Melody pored over the word slips for at least an hour each night, upped it to three hours as the Bee buzzed nearer. ¶as in Deciduous. When the Big Test came in Washington's Commerce Department auditorium one day last week, Melody felt that she was as ready as she would ever be. But so did 62 other crack young (aged 12-14) spellers, the pick of some 5,000,000 school...
...Dartmouth, and Wise Acres no nearer the boards, Chick and Nickie watch the hidden land mines of life blowing up all around them. Having told himself, "I must under no condition marry this girl," Chick does marry his beautiful but dumb childhood sweetheart, Crystal. What is more, babies follow. Chick's father-in-law, who runs the advice column for the local paper, gets him a job writing Pepigrams ("All work and no play make Jack"). And then the old boy dies "on third" of a heart attack during a charity softball game, and Chick inherits the advice column...
...jammed to capacity, the board of education decided to solve the problem by quietly packing all Negro pupils off to the ramshackle Lincoln elementary school on the east side of town. For 15 years no one protested. Then came the Supreme Court's historic decision. Negro parents living nearer Webster than Lincoln began demanding that Webster admit their children. The board's answer: it redistricted the whole town, assigned two widely separated Negro neighborhoods to all-Negro Lincoln...