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They go for advice to a Harley Street specialist, who turns out to be the stranger at the cocktail party. They both lay their cards on the table face down. The specialist admonishes them for dramatizing themselves and trying to glorify their plight; they are, he says, mere self-deceivers. Actually Edward, who can love nobody, and Lavinia, whom nobody can love, share a common bond of isolation, and will be far happier together than apart. Celia Coplestone comes to the specialist, too, but with a sense of sin and a capacity for humility and atonement: for her, salvation...
...Playwright Eliot, the modern world has still the look of a wasteland where drinks and tidbits are served. But his own stony The Waste Land lies now a long way off, for he himself has seen a hopeful way out. His Harley Street specialist is preaching Christian faith as well as Freud, concerned with love as well as sex; and is indeed more spiritual adviser than psychiatrist. After his perplexed visitors have left, he and his assistants drink a libation of red wine-in telling contrast to a frivolous champagne toasting at the cocktail party-and chant for Celia...
Hutchins, however, envisioned the ideal faculty only as one devoid of specialists. "Specialists cannot think together," he said. "In universities, anything that any specialist wanted to study had to be included. In time the university became a more housing project men pursuing unrelated studies without the needful intercommunication...
Died. George Morris Dorrance, 72, surgeon and soup magnate (Campbell's board chairman), socialite, specialist in cancer research, early plastic surgeon, originator (during treatment of World War I casualties) of an operative technique that has helped children born with cleft palates to speak more clearly; in Philadelphia...
...outstanding defensive linebacker for two seasons under Art Valpey, succeeds Howle Houston as captain. He breaks a string of three consecutive married captains and his election returns Harvard to the tradition of backfield captains, which has been broken only three times since 1929. Isenberg is probably the first defensive specialist to be elected captain...