Word: tucerkman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War I Europe, The Old School Tie is more or less an autobiography of the author's schooling at Cheltenham College and later at Oxford. Tucerkman's parents, especially his father, are presented as archetypes of American tourism in the grand old largesse days. They are the dying generation, the professional travelers, whose era ended in the summer of 1914. Throughout, the rather unpolished symbol of the father's increasing blindness, paralleling the increasing threat of war, attempts to give the book an air of gravity. Yet such devices--and there are many--seem merely pasted...
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