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Seen from the outside, through the eyes of Stilbourne's dim but eccentric characters, Oliver is just a bright boy with a small talent for music and a chance to rise on the "awful ladder" of the British class system by way of a science scholarship to Oxford. The...
Nothing Is Simple. The people in Golding's work are not so much characters as beings. Somehow, they are elevated above their existence in the commonplace world into a region where nonpractical life is led; behind the plane surface lies another dimension. On the level of social comedy, Miss...
Abortive Lives. Ostensibly, The Pyramid is a simple story told by a man named Oliver, who recounts his life at three stages. The base of this living pyramid is an English village near the Trollopean cathedral town of Barchester; the village is Stilbourne, appropriately named, since it encloses so many...
To Oliver, Stilbourne is an awful shambles from which he must escape. He is the classic adolescent-ruthless, secretive and vulnerable; few better studies have been written of his condition. He wrestles with sacred and profane loves, one represented by Imogen, a local beauty and culture snob who is headed...
The 546 who are lucky enough to be the first-year men of 1967 (out of 3,250 applicants) have every reason to expect that they are in for a rich educational experience. Under Dean Erwin Griswold, Harvard Law School is celebrating its 150th anniversary, and the sum of what...