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Parry, however, is no stranger to either Harvard or the House system. In 1936-37, as a candidate for a PhD. from Cambridge, he spent a year at Harvard as a Henry Fellow. He lived in Eliot House and rowed with the House crew...
...Inspector General is the classic case of mistaken identity. The officials of an unnamed village learn that an inspector from St. Peterburg will soon visit their town, and may be travelling incognito. When they hear that a well-dressed stranger from Petersburg has arrived at the inn, they assume that he is their dreaded visitor. Actually, the young man is just a penniless fop who had lost all his money at cards and is stuck at the inn because he can't pay his bill. The mayor and his subordinates proceed to stuff their inspector with food, drink, and money...
Into the life of a thoroughly conventional family comes a very unusual stranger: a natural person in the midst of artifice, a storm center in the midst of tedium. The family reacts and changes, until at last, when the stranger disappears, their lives are altered forever...
...Picker '67 has twisted this familiar plot and given it something of a new ending. Her stranger, Sophia, has become engaged to the family's elder son, Danny, and he is bringing her home. She enters a house full of forgotten ambitions and of subsurface unhappiness. Danny's father, Sam, is bored by his wife; the couple barely tolerates self-centered grandmother Eleanor; and all three have lost contact with swingin' teen younger brother George. The house is heavy with inertia; the mother wanted to be an artist, the grandmother a pianist. Sam was once a critic of note...
...miscarriage climaxes a lifetime of disappointments. Having lost a girlhood lover, she barely tolerates marriage to a handyman she loathes. Angela (Gio Petre) is a young aristocrat, seduced and abandoned by her aunt's former paramour. Agda (Harriet Andersson) is a trollop who took sweets from a lecherous stranger at nymphet age, and has been surpassingly generous to menfolk ever since...