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...obsessed by a single idea. Readers of "Midsummer Night's Madness" will recall how the formally unrelated short stories in that book all elaborated a central theme; the change--usually a disintegrating change--wrought upon its characters by the stress of a hopeless political revolt. In "A Nest of Simple Folk" the pattern of a family chronicle extending in time from 1854 to 1906 is woven about a similar theme. By tracing the fortunes of three generations of Irish men and women, Mr. O'Faolain has been able to realize the implications of his subject to the full, and heighten...
...women only are courses in the Y. W. C. A. building. There they may learn how to make quilts, hooked rugs and lamp shades from Miss Clarice Smith, a sanatorium nurse, in a course in Home Handicraft ("Beautify the home-nest"). Mrs. Andrew Wood, housewife, shares her culinary skill in New Wrinkles in Cooking. Mrs. H. S. Patton, wife of a Michigan State College professor, teaches the school's second most popular course, Personality Plus. In it 158 women are learning how to meet strangers, use cosmetics, improve their conversational resources...
There are undoubtedly numbers in Harvard College who think that cooperation with the government a poor policy, but although noted as a liberal college, Harvard is not the nest of radicals and fools that some of the former letters and editorials would indicate...
...IBIS NEST: Mt. Auburn Street. Hottest place in town, and funny! If you want food there is always some in the cellar (unless that lease has run out). Entrance by the front door. While there ask to see the interesting animal show, but don't touch the nasty exhibits...
PEGASUS' PERCH: Next to the Ibis Nest. Just one of those places three flights up where you can still see the Village Crowd. Clientele rather stiff and formal...