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...beginning, Hollis was the meagre roof over the sombre heads of young men studying for the Puritan ministry. The gift of a prudent merchant to a struggling college, the bare wooden rooms and cell-like studies were the omnipresent manifestations of the privations of the early faith. Names such as Mather, Gore, Winthrop are common to the plates that hung on the harsh doors. Zealous advocates of stern religion left these rooms to lead the spiritual life of the northern colonies...
...never know" Mama had chosen to keep quiet, and to ruin her daughter's happiness. But to bring up all this now would invalidate the insanity plea and Bethel would hang. So Lerryn kept quiet, went insane herself ("she remembers nothing but is quite happy in her little cell"). Some readers may find this book morbid...
...much better at dialogue than drama. Saroyan's one-acter is more rewarding because it's simpler and more human. It tells of a guy (Eddie Dowling) in a small-town Texas jail who, before he is killed by a mob, talks through the bars of his cell with the jail's wispish slavey of a cook (Julie Haydon). Theirs is a brief rapprochement, a doomed romance, of two desperately lonely, anonymous souls. But the scene, quilted down with words, is merely touching where it ought to be intense...
Bubble Bust. In Great Falls, Mont., prisoners at the county jail wanted to contribute their cell bars to the scrap drive, wrote the county commissioners: "Return our hacksaws - and we will tend to the rest." The commissioners contributed the saws instead...
From his latest cell, where he must spend six months for practicing medicine without a license, nine months for carrying a revolver without a permit, Phillips explained his success. Said he: "The secret of my success in medicine and surgery is that I was able to build a better mousetrap...