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...collection includes records as well as trivia. The dining hall receipts for 1653 show a Harvard that took its case at table. In those golden days beer was the standard drink with meals, and no nonsense about voluntary privation. The large number of checks and circles against each student's name attest the hearty servings and frequent refills. Next to beer the favorite was potatoes. Well before the Irish immigration of 1715, Harvard men well knew the filling quality of the spud...
...another frame of existence. Neither are there characters on the stage who would exist only in an author's well-constructed, never-existent world. To do this, Mr. Inge would have to be an artist. Instead, he is a talented censor, able to sort and to rearrange the various trivia of living, conversation and action, combining a significant grouping of these, to create an excellent reproduction...
Dismantled down to its premise (and assuming that Houses now are overrun, a singularly doubtful point), this resembles regulating teeth-brushing and other personal trivia regulating teeth-brushing and other personal trivia which the University usually and properly ignores. Why is it the Administrative Board's business whether undergraduates can or do allocate their time properly, how well they battle temptation to slough off their studies, or whether roommates impede each other? Surely, as in any other matter of personal friction and decision, students are quite competent to make their own choices, seek then own relief...
...what do these people think of Senator Nixon, who discussed his slush fund in terms of the most blatant emotional demagognery, who conjured up his dog, his children, his wife, and all the other irrelevent trivia possible to blur his listeners' intellects with team? What do they think of the epilogue, when Nixon's campaign manager admitted that his boss misused (by Nixon's detinition) the Senatorial franking privilege for political purposes? That Eisenhower should select such a vice-president, that he should allow the possibility of Nixon's assuming the chief executive's office, and that he should permit...
...family going gracefully to seed. Into the Olmstead household comes a Northern son-in-law, brilliant, restless and unhappy. Though he loves his wife, he cannot fit into her family or persuade her to break away from it. Why should they always be kissing and hugging, reminiscing about adolescent trivia, delighting in the vast disorder of their house, and still honoring the obsolete cult of the Southern Lady? Most of The Family is a quarrel-by-quarrel account of a North-South marriage; the rest is a sympathetic picture of the gallant but slipping Olmsteads. As a study in regional...