Word: repression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Board exams than he is besieged with printed matter from the college of his choice. Completely unnerved by the exams, he diligently reads the reams of material with which the denizens of University Hall flood the mail. These loyal members of Harvard's official staff all through the winter repress their urge for self-expression knowing that with the first spring robin will come the chance to draw a detailed "Letter to Incoming Freshmen...
...masseur named Louis Duncan, who tells what happened in the Cornish household of his client, Mrs. Nance, after she had called him down from London to give her treatments. In 15 years of blindness, Duncan has learned to use his other senses with extraordinary acuteness, has even learned to repress his visual fantasies, thinking in terms of touch, hearing, smell. Handshakes and voices inform him of individuals he meets, except for Mrs. Nance's niece, Sophie Madron, who intrigues him by not shaking hands. He deduces that she is a more passionate as well as a more fastidious person...