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Novelist Styron's first book, Lie Down in Darkness, was a Fall-of-the-House-of-Usher story about a decaying Southern family, and its lyric, doom-haunted evocation of the Southern landscape made the author the bright hope of U.S. fiction among some critics, as well as the hero of a lively minor cult on college campuses. Much of his new and far inferior book takes place in Italy, south of Rome, but the characters and attitudes are standard sub-Mason-Dixon. The two central figures are Mason Flagg, a rich neurotic dilettante, and Cass Kinsolving, an alcoholic...
Dunster: Freshman Union Committee, Chairman; House Committee, Chairman; Social Relations Society; PBH, Mental and General Hospital Committees; Junior Usher; Inter-House Debate Tournament...
Eliot: Debate Council, President; Student Council; Harvard Representative to National Humanities Conference; Experiment in International Living; Junior Usher; Hasty Pudding Club...
Dudley: Student Council, Extra-Curricular Affairs Chairman; Historical Society, President; House Committee Secretary, Chairman; House Athletics; Junior Usher...
Dunster: Freshman Jubilee Committee; Combined Charities Drive, Co-Chairman; House Soccer, Golf; Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Advertising Manager, Business, Manager; Junior Usher...