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...grotesque, the book is a disordered Horatio Alger story: escape from a poor Brooklyn boyhood, as it might have been written by Harpo Marx and Hieronymus Bosch working together. Wild philosophic maunderings sprinkled with a self-taught man's self-conscious display of highfalutin' acquaintances (Bergson, Nietzsche. Whitman) proclaim Miller's belief in the sovereignty of the heart over the mind. A nearly endless series of appallingly anatomical boy-meets-girl grapplings sometimes suggests that sex is the mystic key to magical joy, but often offers it as an uproarious poolhall joke...
...something or beating it with my fists." Also, while still a schoolboy, he salutes the first intimations of his special vision of life, "feeling the beauty of everything, not excluding slop jars and foetuses-and a feeling of love for everything-and now I've run into Walt Whitman-and it seems as if I've dived into a sort of infinitudeof beautiful stuff...
...into three House centers this year and, tentatively and sometimes reluctantly, began to sponsor a variety of social and intellectual projects. South House, composed of Barnard, Bertram, and Briggs Halls, held an art show; North House (Comstock, Holmes, and Moors) invited Norman Thomas to speak; East House (Cabot, Eliot, Whitman, and the Jordan co-operatives) put on a production of George Bernard Show's Heart-break House...
Although the College purchased the apartment building at 124 Walker Street, two of the off-campus houses as well as the first floors of Whitman and Barnard Halls will not be used for undergraduate housing next year. Only six of the 324 girls will be commuting...
Also elected were Patricia Murray of Cambridge; Emily R. Otis of Everett House and St. Paul, Minn.; Nancy B.N. Rash of Holmes Hall and Louisville, Ky.; Myra Rubin of Whitman Hall and New York City; and Ruth W. Messinger, of Cabot Hall and New York City...