Word: rowley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RUTH ROWLEY...
...undergraduates in groups is one-sided and wholly out of keeping with the character portrayed. This inconsistency creates a cavity in the fictional personality uncovering the views on prejudices of the author. The artistic impression is momentarily destroyed, and Andrew Aiken no longer seems the sensitive president of Rowley, but rather a vehicle for the author's own impressions. If this is not so, then Andrew Aiken is not a character the reviewer can believe in. If this inconsistency exists for a purpose, Mr. Morrison has not adequately explained why Andrew Aiken has this one blind spot in an otherwise...
...book filled with mature characterization of men and women in an academic community. Obviously, Mr. Morrison, Lecturer on English, knows the problems of professors and administrators in a college, and he sympathizes with his characters. Andrew Aiken, the figure dominating the novel, is acting president of Rowley College. And while the trustees decide whether or not he may keep his position, Mr. Morrison hands him problems of defending academic freedom, financing a library, dealing with neurotic faculty and alumni pressure. As Aiken faces these problems, he emerges able but overly sensitive and not at all confident of his ability...
From the faculty-student dealings in "The Stones of the House," I get the impression that Mr. Morrison considers a student body as a necessary but unpleasant prop in a college. There is no evidence that the relation between Rowley's professors and undergraduates ever goes beyond the brief contacts in the classroom or dean's office. Perhaps one might explain this as selective pruning; "The Stones of the House" is primarily a few months in Andrew Aiken's life, and during this time the acting president is seldom directly concerned with students. But at one time, Aiken must deal...
...guests and staff tramped aboard his plane. There was his old friend and West Point classmate, General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Ike's Defense Secretary Wilson, Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Major General Wilton B. Persons (ret.); and James Rowley, chief of the White House Secret Service detail. Ike swung up the ladder with a greeting to all hands, and at 5:55 a.m. his Constellation took off. Ten minutes later the press plane followed. Both planes carried double crews...