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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Being born too soon is one offense you simply can't help," Morgan said. "Although I regret leaving Harvard, this will be sort of an adventure," he added. Morgan is now 71 and the compulsory retirement age of 66 had been waived for five years in his favor...
...smooth, varnished wood-and-iron chair, carved to fit your bottom, screwed immovably to the floor, with the right arm designed for writing on, that is widened enough to take one roundish shaped piece of paper or a clip-board, no place to put your elbow, a sort of island in a useless unfriendly void...
...from a collection basket--the story is unconvincing either as a satire of parish culture or as a psychological study of the child. An improbable ending, in which the boy showers a group of gaffers in a park with the pilfered church money and the old men have a sort of mystical experience as they grab for the coins, is contrived and hopelessly out of tune with the rest of the story. There are also two failures, only one of which seems intentional, to sell properly the "et cum spiritu tuo" response of the Mass. Kilty is a better actor...
There are also two poems. One, fashionably devoted to the theme of postwar disillusionment, is called "Faust 1945" and reiterates the tired soldier's discovery that there's no solace for the sterile soul in drink, dames, or solace for the other, a sort of love lyric by the Advocate's new President, is called "Song," and succinctly continues the tradition of conventional obscurity which has become, one is tempted to say, a hallmark of the magazine. This particular poem is written in three four-line stanzas and makes no pretense of intellectual content. Instead, it tries to convey...
Dennis Enright is the only man who lives at Soldiers Field. You've probably passed his brown frame house just inside Gate One dozens of times without really noticing it. It's sort of hidden by the shrubbery and you've been in a hurry to get into your seat before the kickoff or to be on time for House football practice...