Word: porter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word that could be taken out." She took her characters just as hard: "I've stood for hours on the Auckland Wharf. I've been out in the stream waiting to be berthed-I've been a seagull hovering at the stern and a hotel porter whistling through his teeth." In a handful of stories, notably Bliss, Prelude and The Garden-Party, she came near passing her only test: perfection. She also achieved what Henry James regarded as fiction's ultimate goal, "a direct impression of life...
...ever been devised. The witches go through enough earthy comedy to preclude them from being "Fates," while they appear so often in such strange places as to make it impossible to believe that they are the mere psychological manifestations of Macbeth's character. They cavort with the drunken porter, dive into secret trap-doors in the stage, finish the play with an incantation which was never written by Shakespeare (or if it was, is ordinarily wisely omitted), and generally make such a nuisance of themselves as to confuse the main character study. Marre has also seen fit to cut Macbeth...
...only a nodding acquaintance, and quickly forgot one another. Greene edited the literary Oxford Outlook, but otherwise slid immemorably through his three years there. He "took a second" (good, but not excellent) in modern history. One of the few people at Oxford who remember him at all is the porter at Balliol ("He lived on Staircase 20, he did"). But the porter is greatly surprised to hear that Greene has made a name for himself...
...Student Employment Office, Mrs. Gladys M. Fales not only handles the Student Porter system, dining hall, clerical, and typing employment, but also solicits jobs for students from the libraries and other departments of the University...
...available, the Council will also probe into Student Finance, College Admissions, and the Student Porter Plan. Such Council projects may have to be curtailed unless more men volunteer to help Sandler said...