Word: rydal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Evanston, Ill. 81 Ernst, Frederick '60 E 6.3 195 Ridgefield, Conn. 82 Hutcherson, John '61 E 6.2 195 University, Miss. 83 Riddle, Pete '60 E 6.5 198 Highland Pk., Ill. 85 Connors, James '59 E 6.2 197 Cheshire, Conn. 87 Lundstedt, George '61 E 6.0 193 Rydal, Pa. 88 Rogers, John '61 E 6.1 205 Syracuse, N. Y. 89 Murach, Michael '61 E 6.2 195 Grafton, Wisc...
...Rydal...
...runaway puritan." There he samples "every kind of pleasure, vice, shame and mental anguish," and returns to England a jaded 22, convinced that the only valid emotion is boredom, "or ennui as I preferred to call it." Into the midst of ennui steps an older woman named Elizabeth Rydal, a sensitive novelist of the Virginia Woolf persuasion, with grey eyes and a "long amused mouth...
...Golden Girl. Elizabeth Rydal is also on the rebound, not from ennui, but from a dead lover. She is busy on a novel about an "orphan of the Saxophone Age." Stephen marries Elizabeth, but the relationship is marred by Elizabeth's dedication to her first love, "this wretched novel-I'm so heavy with it, I feel sometimes as if I could scarcely drag myself upstairs." Stephen not only strays into an illicit affair, but also dabbles in homosexuality. Elizabeth, who makes a cult of "understanding," forgives...