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...they shrunk from the beautiful as Oscar Wilde once declared of American artist James McNeil Whistler; "Ah, Whistler! Yes, wonderful of course, but, how he fears beauty! He puts a blot, a mere stain like a petal, a butterfly upon a sheet of paper and dares not touch it, lest its charm be lost. His portraits remind me of the painter in Balzac's Chefd' oeuvre inconnu, laboring his canvas for years and when he draws the curtain to show the masterpiece, lo, there is nothing...
...directness without overstating it. He is able in a single sequence to crystallize all plot conflicts: Burgess swims in the Hall pond as several Maudsleys arrive for a bathing party, with Leo along to watch. (Though he has a bathing suit, his mother warned him not to swim, lest he catch cold). The Maudsleys must patronize Burgess, one of their valuable tenants: but to the eyes of Leo, the boys' frivolous games contrast negatively with Burgess's vigor. Marion dunks herself with a friend. When they all emerge, Leo goes to Marion, and tells her of the strong...
...Tony Curtis), and the two of them womanize and swashbuckle around the Cote d'Azur "in the name of justice." For all their jet-set airs, their plebeian repartee and stupefying plots make Roger and Tony emerge more like Batman and Robin in ascots. Catch the show fast lest the Nielsen ratings get there first...
...sure, the "islands in the sky" have drawbacks. For one, children must be constantly watched lest they play too close to the building's edge. For another, rooftop residents so prize their quarters that even when sick or poverty-stricken they hesitate to seek health or welfare services from the government. They fear that they would get landlords in trouble by calling attention to their unauthorized occupancy, or that conventional tenants would object if they heard of disease in the hovels above them...
...would wander into Radcliffe classrooms and freely audit lectures given by Harvard professors. After 1946, when Radcliffe academically merged with Harvard, these wandering scholars were turned away from lectures for lack of space. For a time, even the Cliffies had to stand in the back of the lecture hall lest a Harvard man be deprived a seat...