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ANDREW R. SISSON Henniker...
...PARTY and THE BASEMENT are two one-acters by Harold Pinter. In Tea Party, Sisson, a manufacturer of bidets, is thrown into a catatonic state at an office tea party by the ambiguous relationships of his family and his secretary. The Basement is about a man and his girl friend who move in to share an old chum's flat...
...School lost about 100 of last year's 530 first-year students. In letters to the Secretary of the School, most students indicated that they were leaving to get jobs that would insure them deferments. Few said said they had actually been called for induction. Dean Thomas K. Sisson '46 attributed GSAS's 17 per cent first-year loss to similar actions by the students...
...merely a presentment of an inner state of being, a translation from the unconscious. In The Party, Pinter is governed once again by his vision of woman as the sexual aggressor. The secretary is pallidly but visibly related to the praying-mantis wife in The Homecoming. The character of Sisson was almost perfectly described by Cyril Connolly in The Unquiet Grave when he wrote: "A puritan is incomplete because he excludes that half of himself of which he is afraid, and so the deeper he imprisons himself in his fastidiousness, the more difficulty he has in finding a woman...
...Sisson does not really want to be released. He cannot face his own sexuality. He makes "sanitary wares"; the messiness, disorder, and illogic of deeply felt emotion are profoundly threatening to him. And so, the force personified in the secretary releases him but also destroys...