Word: towns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Harvard's home town of Southwark, England, has honored President Conant by giving his name to the largest structure in its modern housing project. Conant House opened for occupancy February...
Seat of Learning. In Lynchburg, Va., when a radio station suggested a Junior Town Meeting of the Air for students, the school board opposed it because controversial subjects might be discussed...
Snubs That Rankled. His boyhood chance for traveling with the home-town upper-upper crust was wiped out by a financial panic. "I can remember distinctly how I felt when we didn't have any more money [after the crash of 1907]. I could feel myself becoming what [Anthropologist W. L.] Warner calls 'mobilized downward.' Of course, I had read Horatio Alger and I was ready to face this change in circumstance in a sportsmanlike manner." In Point of No Return it is Anthropologist Malcolm Bryant who explains such niceties of the scientific vocabulary to Charley Gray...
John went to Harvard (Class of '15), but he had to do it with the help of friends and a town scholarship. What was even more socially disastrous, he says, was the fact that he had gone to Newburyport High School instead of Groton, Exeter or St. Mark's. At Harvard, the more snobbish prep-school men of his class cold-shouldered him and sometimes, he imagined, pointedly crossed the street to avoid speaking to him. (John tucked that away, too. Charley Gray, thinking back over what it had been like to go to Dartmouth from Clyde High...
...Marquand novel theme. Charley Gray, the boy from Spruce Street, does well enough in life, but there are some things he cannot attain when he most wants to, some things he can never attain. He cannot close the gap between Spruce Street and aristocratic Johnson Street in his boyhood town of Clyde, Mass, (for which, perhaps, read Newburyport). Jessica Lovell lived on Johnson Street and was in love with Charley Gray, but it was clear from the start that snobbery wouldn't let anything good come of it. Charley recalls that when, in the middle of the kid-glove...