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Discharged in 1947, Sahl went to Compton College and the University of Southern California, got his bachelor of science degree and started a master's thesis on city traffic flow in his new field, public administration (Harry was sure it would be safe). But his collision with the social sciences was even more disillusioning than his romance with the military. "I couldn't get with it," he says. "It was Conformity City. All the organization men were swinging." With a friend, he rented an old theater, called it Theater X, wrote and staged plays (one title: Nobody Trusted...
...North Carolina's Davidson College has twelve Rhodes scholarships to its credit, and plenty of new money (TIME, Dec. 21). Ohio's Marietta ranks eleventh (with Antioch) in the U.S. in production of prominent men scientists. Ohio's College of Wooster produced the famed scientist brothers Compton (Wilson, Karl, Arthur). And Lawrence College in northern Wisconsin is a hatchery of university presidents. One former teacher, Victor L. Butterfield, heads Connecticut's topnotch Wesleyan. One former president, Henry M. Wriston, later took over Brown. A successor, Nathan M. Pusey, went on to Harvard...
...Heritage and Its History, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. The 16th of the writer's novels is just like its predecessors: from a well-worn, faintly ludicrous tangle of love, marriage and the family are drawn insights sophisticated...
...Heritage and Its History, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. In impeccably stylized dialogue, the autor writes her 16th ostensibly comic novel, brimful of the vanity of human wishes and the tragic fatality of ancient Greek drama...
Early sorrow, in the death of her mother and two brothers while she was in her 203, shadowed Compton-Burnett's life and doubtless her fiction. A lonely woman, especially since the death of her companion, Journalist Margaret Jourdain, in 1951, she is no recluse. She is a theatergoer and relishes the Angry Young Men. Modern art, on the other hand, baffles her: "Recently I went to an exhibition of sculpture and saw what I thought was a swordfish. But I was told it was a family going out for a walk." Actually, this is a rather apt description...