Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Summer Band will hold the first of two Pops Concerts tomorrow at 7:15 p.m. Music, which will originate from the steps of Widener, will include selections from "The King and I," "My Fair Lady," and Sousa marches: and the first three movements of "Suite of Old American Dances" and "The Bugler's Holiday...
...Chalk Garden" is the story of a struggle between life and sterility which is carried on at two levels. On one level the struggle is between the 70-year-old Mrs. St. Maugham and the woman she hires as a companion for her sixteen-year-old granddaughter, Laurel. On the other level, the struggle is between the companion, Miss Madrigal, and Mrs. St. Maugham's old, and now infirmed, butler, Mr. Pinkbell, who never appears on stage. Since the companion is at the focus of both of these quarrels, it is on the strength of the performance of Miss Madrigal...
...happened, the lunch never came off. and De Vries, like a character in one of his novels (Comfort Me with Apples, The Mackerel Plaza. The Tunnel of Love), was left wistfully savoring the sour cream of the jest. This touch of rueful, pun-prone phantasmagoria has made 49-year-old Peter De Vries the leading comic geographer of commuterland. Humorist De Vries surveys his world with the wacky vision of a man who has inadvertently put on the wrong pair of glasses...
...Washington hostess. Eventually, Britton decides that he, too, can be ruthless, and in fact, Edithless. Boldly following the urge that is the 27-year itch of many a marriage, he deposits $320,000 with discreet Swiss bankers, shaves off his mustache and his Harvard accent and, as plain old Llewellyn Jones, decamps...
...girl Maggie (as far as sex goes, the book is innocent enough to be read by a bishop, or a postmaster general). Everything is lengthily reported, but none of it matters much. Perhaps the trouble is that young Duluoz does not matter. As a brash, noisemaking ten-year-old, he lived in a world full of wonders; as a teenager, he seems gross and unimaginative. Maggie Cassidy was taken, like most of Kerouac's recently published books, from an apparently limitless attic filled before On the Road appeared. For the literary taxidermist, such finds can be profitable...