Word: pulham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrote the same novel again and again. It is always the tale of a man musing over his past to find an explanation for the present, searching for some way to break the accidental but inexorable timetable of his life. But there is no way out. H. M. Pulham, Esq., the caste-conscious Harvard snob, resigns himself to life in a narrowing circle of middle-aged Bostonian complacency (" 'If I had had the guts' -I sometimes find myself thinking, and a part of the old restlessness comes back"). Melville Goodwin, U.S.A. tries to break out of the Army...