Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though no longer an infant prodigy, Virovai arrived in Manhattan wearing short pants, immediately changed them for more dignified trousers, of which he is proud as Punch. The thing that completely floored him in Manhattan was automats. He spent hours in one, stuffing slots with nickels and himself with the food that popped...
...large blue campaign button bearing a red question mark. As he meets his friends Dr. Kelly presents them with small reprints from the New Testament, saying, "Here's my card," and when strangers question him about his interrogating button, he invariably asks: "What is the most important thing in the world?" The correct answer: Christianity...
Most lively thing about Danton's Death is the production, in which the hero of the play is not Danton, not Robespierre, not the Paris mob, but the Mercury's electrician. Against a towering cyclorama cobbled with thousands of tiny skulls, with the mob off-stage howling and shrieking, bellowing bawdy songs, braying the Carmagnole, Danton's Death jerks forward in short, swift scenes of sinister lights and even more sinister shadows. Many of the stage effects are bold and startling; but where, in Julius Caesar last season, vivid technique heightened a throbbing story, in Danton...
...Milan, Italy, Paolo Motta and his bride, Teresina, retired on their wedding night. Water began to drip on Paolo's neck. He looked for the annoying source, could not find it, went damply muttering back to bed. Next night the same thing happened again. This time he traced the water to a hole in the ceiling. Paolo Motta rushed upstairs, broke into the room above, found one of his popular bride's disgruntled suitors standing over the hole with a pitcher of water...
About the most conventional thing a Harvard undergraduate of literary tastes can do is to write a novel about a Harvard undergraduate. The case of Wells Lewis, Harvard '39, is complicated by the fact that his father Sinclair, Yale '07, also writes novels...