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...Answer. In Alaganik, Alaska, a search party hunting Jimmy La Gasa, who had fired a rifle at a powder magazine just to see what would happen, found...
...scion of a wealthy U.S. family -a young Yaleman, adept at billiards, girdling the globe in search of a cure for a broken heart. She was a second-class geisha in old Kyoto. But from the moment he first spied her picture outside the Ono-Tei teahouse, George D. Morgan (son of J. P. Sr.'s sister Sarah and a distant cousin, George Hale Morgan) thought more & more of fragile, fragrant O-Yuki and less & less of a frosty Miss Meta Mackay, who had broken her engagement to him back in the States...
...finds out he is excluded if he does not meet certain restrictive standards. He watches the publications group; unless he has certain peculiar talents he cannot gain entry there. He may abhor politics, social work, card playing, or drinking; these groups are therefore out. The terms of the search should not be put too baldly, but it goes on nevertheless. Success equates with satisfaction, failure with unhappiness. Very few are strong enough to go the whole way alone...
...eternal search, however, is for security and exclusiveness. He looks for these qualities in a group. Neither the House, grown very far from the dreams of President Lowell, nor the class, far from the hopes for the Alumni Association, provides a coalescing force. The individual must, therefore, find a group outside these mechanical divisions which will assure him against "outsiders" intrusions and at the same time give him a sense of belonging to an "exclusive...
...their grim winters of war and political despair (A Room on the Route). William Wister Haines's Command Decision, a tense story of hard choices at an A.A.F. headquarters, was made into a hit play on Broadway. The Steeper Cliff, David Davidson's novel of a search for the meaning of intellectual courage in postwar Germany, was the best fictional attempt to treat of the problems of peace...