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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novel's "economy" of presentation. It is a strange economy, an economy which reduces the 18 years of squalor to a few paragraphs, and yet sends its protagonist back to the squalor as a pawn of Guerard's "reality." It is an economy which, when employed, too often fails to satisfy the curiosity; and which, in its lapses, overelaborates the same sort of sex affair people have confessed to in railroad club cars for a quarter-century...
...Bail. Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson ('17), stoutly denies that he was one of the shop's nicotine-tarnished idlers, admits only that "once or twice a year (not often enough to be recognized) I did drop in to take a free pipeful of Cake Box Mixture from the open box on the counter. I tried to give the impression that, if the sample were to my taste, I would order Cake Box Mixture in bulk." Epicure Lucius Beebe ('27) shunned cigarettes, which caused users to emerge from Leavitt & Peirce "shamelessly trailing clouds of Sweet Caporal and leering...
...holds different religious opinions, says Cohen, is no reason to accuse him of being disloyal to a pluralist, democratic society. Clancy, on the other hand, attacks those Catholics who are trying to "impose on the public values that, in this time and place, have become private values," as is often the case in censorship fights. Such Catholics, says Clancy, "act as though the last few centuries had never happened." Both Clancy and Cohen agree that the Jacobins, as well as the extreme advocates of "religious establishment," are enemies of the free society, that both seek to make...
...Polygamy. Though diminishing, it still too often makes a wife "no more than the mother of her husband's children." But while polygamy is unChristian, one delegate warned, "Catholic women should not leave husbands who take another wife. Under the sacrament of marriage, there can be no second wife. She must be considered a concubine...
...week's end the average stood at 501.76, highest since Aug. 5, 1957, and within hailing distance of the alltime postwar high of 521.05. Even more surprising was the volume: 18,581,325 shares, heaviest week of the year. Instead of tapering off at the weekend as it often does, the buying increased steadily, left the tape minutes behind as 4,427,280 shares, double the normal volume, changed hands on the closing...