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Other topics included American women travellers in 19th century Europe, women at Oxford and Cambridge between 1870 and 1920, and the struggle between 1923 and 1937 for the establishment of a minimum wage for American women...
...Stonehenge and Salisbury Plain. In the beginning he arrives; at the end he goes. In between, this writer (hereafter called, for the sake of convenience, Naipaul) thinks occasionally about the first 18 years of his life in Trinidad, "my insecure past," and the scholarship that took him to Oxford and England, "the other man's country." He reveals nothing about his university experiences and alludes only glancingly to the following 15 years he spent struggling to make his name as a writer. What engages, indeed mesmerizes, his attention is his sojourn in rural England, "this gift of the second life...
Although it is called a novel, The Enigma of Arrival stretches the line between fiction and autobiography nearly to the vanishing point. The unnamed narrator is a writer in his mid-50s, an Indian and a Hindu, born in Trinidad, educated at Oxford, who has traveled extensively and lived most of his adult life in England. This person, in other words, is indistinguishable from V.S. Naipaul; and the personality, the tone of voice and cast of mind displayed here resemble the prose of Naipaul's nonfiction (Among the Believers; India: A Wounded Civilization) more closely than that of his other...
...begin with, nobody ever really waited for the shuttle out on Oxford Street anyway. Except in unusually warm weather, everybody waiting for the shuttle to the Quad hung out inside the Science Center, behind glass doors. This spot offered a clear view of the shuttle as it rounded Memorial Hall from Cambridge Street and left students plenty of time to get to it's stop in time...
SINCE THE stop has been moved nothing has changed. People still wait inside the warmth of the Science Center until they see the approaching bus and then run across the street to the Memorial Hall driveway. End result: At peak hours, the 40 people crossing Oxford Street en masse obstruct just as much traffic as ever...