Word: traversing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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P. L. Travers, author of the Mary Poppins books, dispensed no-nonsense advice (your favorite flavor) and tart opinions last night after her arrival in Cambridge to be Radcliffe's "writer-in-residence."
"As soon as you tell about something you're going to write, it evaporates," Miss Travers reprimanded an inquisitive reporter. "If you're going to have a baby, you can't pull it out after three months and say, 'What does it look like now,'"
Appointed writer-in-residence at Radcliffe College, Miss Pamela L. Travers specified only that she would like a rocking chair and a westward-looking window ("You see," she explained, "my thoughts have always looked westward"), and then allowed that back in 1934 she hadn't really "written" Mary Poppins...
While at Radcliffe, Miss Travers will be living in a suite prepared for her in Whitman Hall. According to Anthony G. Oettinger '51, Master of East House, she will be the first of a number of "visiting artists" who will hopefully be occupying the suite in the future.
"We are very excited about the prospect of Miss Travers' visit," he said last night. "We hope it will give the girls a chance to talk to her about everything, especially writing."