Word: roome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course the Masters can't know the qualifications of all their House members; they need advice. They should go for this advice to their tutors, and rely on recommendations from the senior common room, not from the student-elected House committee or from individuals blowing their own horns...
Holly is the heroine of the long title story in this four-story collection and the hottest kitten ever to hit the typewriter keys of Truman (The Muses Are Heard) Capote. Her unhousebroken style of life has already barred her from the intellectual drawing room of Harper's Bazaar, whose editors bought the story but did not print it. Holly is really more to be pitied than censored, more waifish than raffish, a bad little good girl, alone and a little afraid in a lot of beds she never made...
...Real Phony. Breakfast at Tiffany's takes place, flashback-fashion, in 1943, and is full of stationary action: his room, her room, and a Lexington Avenue bar. His room contains Holly's Platonic friend, a fledgling writer whom she calls Buster. Holly's room contains unopened suitcases and unpacked crates frequently decorated with filled martini glasses, for in Holly's transient world, home is wherever one hangs one's hangover. Into Holly's rowdy parties troop the well-heeled and just plain heels. Among them: a rich, effeminate, gossip-column playboy; a roller-skating...
James Hanley is the kind of Irishman who gives the impression that his life has been a knockdown, drag-out fight with reality. To enter his literary world is to enter a dark room in which at first the sparse furniture seems made of human bones. But as the slow light comes up through the long narrative, it is made clear that the ribs on the wall are a hatrack, that the upended coffin is a wardrobe and the skull under the bed is a more commonplace utensil...
...four speakers at a symposium sponsored by the Harvard Dramatic Club in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room were W. Elliot Norton '26 of the Boston Record, Lyon Phelps '46 of the Boston Herald, Henry Popkin of the Kenyon Review, and Gavin Scott '58-4 of the CRIMSON. Gaynor F. Bradish '52, instructor in English, moderated the panel...