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...intervals between operations (three or four may be needed for each patient), the girls pass from one Quaker home to another for visits. They are in such demand that the families vie with each other for the chance to put them up. Said one host: "When the girls first moved in, we looked for signs of homesickness or some uneasiness in their attitude toward us. But they couldn't be more cheerful or more delightful as guests." The girls have picked up enough English to get by without an interpreter; they have adopted sleek Italian hairdos, colored ballerina slippers...
...here, in the familiar laryngitic murmur of a voice as suggestive as the rustle of a taffeta petticoat in semidarkness, are echoed moments that have stirred men for as long as a quarter of a century. Among them are Jonny, Lili Marlene, The Boys in the Back Room, La Vie en Rose and the inevitable Falling in Love Again...
...strength and weakness of Mother & Son lie, as always in a Compton-Burnett novel, in the long dialogues in which characters of every age vie with one another in calling a spade a spade, thereby turning it into a hatchet. Sometimes the talk is mere tasty acid drops ("I have not the courage to live on charity ..." "I have the courage but not the chance"); sometimes it is compactly expressive of universal human attitudes ("Let me persuade you to try our fruit. We can buy much better, but we take a pride in our own"). Many of the remarks...
...mean to imply that Messrs. MacFarland, Rendall, Howes, Schitler, et. sl. are not prepared scholastically to cope with the Harvard. We only wish that Coach Vie Heyliger had prepared them in the little things before their journey to Colorado Springs. Perhaps he could have had the team invited to Martha Cook to learn the fine art of balancing a tea cup. Their training should also have included a session with Prof. Eisenberg of the Fine Arts Department, so that they would know a Rembrandt from a Goys...
Competing successfully with champagne and chorus girls, the University of Paris draws a few Harvard language concentrators for study each year. A junior year abroad can be valuable for two reasons: to learn more about la vie franchise by living it, and--more importantly--to use intellectual facilities unavailable in Cambridge...