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...inch or so of suds atop this murky flow of events. Bowen tells the story in a series of sharp, enclosed scenes with irony, dry humor and a terse, elliptical style. She sets pragmatists against emotionalists, opportunists against those who answer only to the hungers of the heart. Like Portia Quayne, the heroine of Bowen's best-known novel. Death of the Heart, Eva leads a life totally unlit by love. She attracts people, but when they reach out for her, they grope in darkness...
...radio soap operas liked to pretend that Portia really faced Life...
...Center to pay for well-known artists to design more elaborate posters than might otherwise have been used. Soon, requests for quality posters began pouring in from colleges, museums and other institutions. To meet the rising demand, Mrs. List last fall joined with Boston Art Dealers Barbara Krakow and Portia Harcus to set up HKL, Ltd., a commercial company that accepts commissions, supplies the artists and supervises production at half a dozen different printing workshops...
...business. The death of a small place like Calvin Coolidge College may seem to be a good move, but, as Daniel Webster used to say, There-Are-Those-Who-Love-It. CCC is actually the undergraduate division of its next-door neighbor, the Portia Law School. Portia is an interesting place. It was founded in 1908 to provide, as you may have guessed, legal education for women. In the mid-30's the school trustees decided to admit male students and to open an undergraduate division. And so was born Calvin Coolidge College. Each institution was more or less autonomous...
...will move against the Trustees in the event of a phase-out. The plan to save the college, which has the endorsement of the college's dean, involves affiliating with Newton's Mount Ida Junior College. The chief stumbling block in the affiliation plan is that Calvin Coolidge and Portia would name only a minority of the trustees of the new board. "But our trustees just don't want to relinquish power," says Coolidge student body president Pat Vinti of Chelmsford...