Word: pritchetts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...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...
...fantasies themselves are often glorious; visions of a black-haired white-robed maiden (Paula Pritchett) walking in superimposed images through various landscapes recur to everyone's satisfaction. Among Rooks' star-studdend hippie cast,--Jean-Louis Barrault excels as Harwick's doctor, at times involuntarily imitating the writhings of his tortured patient, trying bravely to comprehend the connection between the two divided worlds...