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...DOOR by V.S. Pritchett. 244 pages. Random House...
Still another totally recalled English boyhood? One more sensitive child of privilege weaning himself from old Nanny and stumbling gamely onto the fields of Eton? Not at all. V.S. (for Victor Sawdon) Pritchett's brilliantly belligerent account of his first 20 years is about as far as a memoir can get from the usual look-back-in-languor...
Heretofore, Pritchett's eminence has derived from his travel articles and books, his suavely ironic short stories and his book reviews (mostly for Britain's New Statesman), which make him a rival of Edmund Wilson as the best literary critic in the English language. Now an angry old man of 67, Pritchett vents some of the redbrick ferocity of early Osborne or Amis-though with more elegance-as he writes of the genteel poverty and violent lower-middle-class life that he survived...
Hating Father did not mean loving Mother. In fact, the Pritchetts were that human catastrophe, a close but unloving family. What they had instead of love was intensity. Thus Grandfather Pritchett, a minister, "looked like a sergeant major who did not drink." He beat his carpets and his sons with "a genial sadistic touch." Pritchett concludes that his own father was partly playing the pass-on-the-pain game. (Authors who have suffered Pritchett's critical thrashings may believe the same...
...following girls have been elected to the Legislature of the Radcliffe Union of Students: East House--Kathleen Kreiss '69, Susan Saunders '70, and Paulette F. Waldron '69, North House-Lyune N. Gerson '69, Alice P. Hartge '71, Frances Pritchett '69, Nancy L. Salling '70, Elizabeth W. Seaton '71, and Alayne Stephenson '69, South House--alexandra R. Altman '69 Margaret N. Gordon '70 Amy Gutmann '71, and Sandra E. Ravich...