Word: roome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long before he died, or so the story goes, Eugene O'Neill sat before a fireplace in a Boston hotel room. By nature what the psychological men call a "moody" fellow, O'Neill could scarcely have felt much warmth from the flames. As anyone who has appreciated Joan of Arc knows, fire does have its mystical aspects, and with the help of ever-solicitous Carlotta, O'Neill sat up, grasped a sheaf of papers in his palsied hands and thrust it to the flames. No telling what was in the five plays so carefully dispatched by the man who made...
Dudley has always been "a very useful device to take care of temporary groups of students who are wanted in Harvard, but for whom the College has no room," Leighton commented. The residential Houses, he observed, are inflexible units in providing space for students, while Dudley represents "an element of flexibility" in the housing system...
...better moods he tours bookshops, or inspects unframed reproductions. (In his room in Adams House Harold has mounted a picture of Dover Beach--clipped from an insurance ad--on the laundry cardboard from his button-down shirts.) Occasionally he wanders to the river, looking for dandelions--the univer- sal symbol of simple innocence and purity. More often he stands before the plate-glass display or Cardullo's--with a libidinous twitch at the Italian sausage...
...spinster, as the really grandes dames usually are. And she is known to sit quietly in a straightback mahogany chair--Colonial period-- in a drawing room of shadows, counting her memories on a rosary. She accepts visitors and offers them...
...three centuries she has ruled that drawing room and received the generations. Young men coming out of curiosity, out of need, out of cynicism; shuffling and strutting; some of great intelligence and some of little will. And they have left the drawing room essentially the same as they entered it. It was only an interlude. Polite talk and stale crumpets and a few fleet glimpses of her gallery...