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During the war, the College made room rents proportional to the length of time a student lived in a room, but went back to the pre-war contract system last year. This system contains the paradox that ex-students have to pay full rent but are not allowed to live in their College rooms for the balance of the year...
Nothing, by Henry Green. An amusing inquiry into the paradox of solemn youth and flaming age in postwar Britain, by the author of Loving (TIME, March...
...case we are dealing with a hospital orderly who has always wanted to see a patient die, and finally gets his chance). "But the author must gild his story with psychological comment: "Life itself was nothing more than a perpetual dying, and because it was so, was more life. Paradox lay at the root of all being." Fortunately, however, there is little of this stuff; for those who don't mind cadavers "The Death of Adam Sadman" is a fine bit of writing...
Nothing, by Henry Green. An amusing inquiry into the paradox of solemn youth and flaming age in postwar Britain, by the author of Loving (TIME, March...
Nothing, by Henry Green. An amusing inquiry into the paradox of solemn youth and flaming age in postwar Britain, by the author of Loving (TIME, March...