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P. L. Travers, author of the Mary Poppins books, dispensed no-nonsense advice (your favorite flavor) and tart opinions last night after her arrival in Cambridge to be Radcliffe's "writer-in-residence."
She saw Disney's version of Mary Poppins--"Oh, Lord yes, I did, I did"--but would say no more. She wouldn't tell, either, if he was planning another Mary Poppins book.
Appointed writer-in-residence at Radcliffe College, Miss Pamela L. Travers specified only that she would like a rocking chair and a westward-looking window ("You see," she explained, "my thoughts have always looked westward"), and then allowed that back in 1934 she hadn't really "written" Mary Poppins...
ESSAY probes a paradox of U.S. affluence-it seems almost necessary to be a millionaire to afford servants these days, but some people are trying todo something about it. See Help Wanted: Maybe Mary Poppins, Inc. Servants of the churches are not free of financial concerns either, and gone are...
This pattern may spread, may well be the shape of domestic service in an industrial democracy. And so, alas, exeunt Jeeves, Passepartout and Pseudolus, to become IBM cards in the files of an impersonal Mary Poppins, Inc. No "existentialist bond" perhaps, no love lost, no mutual dependence. But at least...