Word: gould
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sincerely hope that our actions will not affect, in any way, the always cordial relations between Harvard and Brown." Arthur L. Guerin, Jr. John D. Gould John B. Leewing Richard O. Playter George Parker Paul H. Daube, Jr. Webster Ray Truman J. Hedding, Jr. Griff Winpue John B. Lipich Robert Richardson Don Smith
GUARD OF HONOR (631 pp.)-James Gould Cozzens - Harcourt, Brace...
Most so-called serious novelists have an ax to grind, a true bill to find, a point of view that they want to uphold regardless of how many opposing points of view they may have to howl down or ignore in the process. James Gould Cozzens is like his fellows in this respect-with one admirable difference. The point he insists on making is that the world is far too wrapped up in different points of view for any one of them to be entirely true, that "the Nature of Things abhors a drawn line and loves a hodgepodge...
When they bought the old farm, their friend Carl Van Doren gave them curt advice: "Pave it." Instead they let their next-door neighbor work it; now the place pays. Around home Gould is a relaxed, ruminative, cigarette-puffing host, lets his handsome, smartly dressed wife do much of the talking. The Goulds entertain simply, serve "a" cocktail, and, like a good Journal family, live well within their combined salaries of around $75,000 a year...
...think that men edit women's magazines very well," says blue-eyed Bruce Gould. "They always take a superior attitude toward women." But as long as Beatrice is around on the Journal, there is no danger of that...