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But you like Father Findley? I asked. I know-Dan is wonderful, Aunt Martha said impatiently; this was not what she wanted to hear. would be better; I suggested that everyone always felt so stuffed after Thanksgiving dinner that it was never a very lively time. Sexual stereotypes did not fall, she liked to say, from the clear blue sky; books were the major influences upon children-

AND WHAT DO THE DEAN OF STUDENTS AND THE DIRECTOR OF SCHOLARSHIPS DO? THEY DON'T KNOW YOU FROM THE CLASSROOM, OR FROM THE GYM, OR FROM THE DORM; THEY'RE ADMINISTRATORS-LIKE THE HEADMASTER. What daydreams I accomplished backstage on Christmas Eve! How I fed myself memories from the faces of my fellow townspeople! When Mr. Lish's charge of anti-Semitism had backfired with a number of the faculty, who were quite belligerently anti-Semitic themselves. I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW YOU COULD BE IN IT, BUT YOU ARE-EVERY TIME, YOU'RE IN IT, he said.