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Page 445
... sexual rival in the prov- inces , lacks aristocratic grace , the bourgeois ideals and rising social force he so perfectly em- bodies buttress his own gross palpability . But at Cascadia College , where , by and large , the faculty are ...
... sexual rival in the prov- inces , lacks aristocratic grace , the bourgeois ideals and rising social force he so perfectly em- bodies buttress his own gross palpability . But at Cascadia College , where , by and large , the faculty are ...
Page 450
... sexual competition . We first real- ize that the author has somehow gone wrong when Lesser makes love to a black girl with a group of hostile blacks , including her boyfriend , waiting for them across the hall - an absolutely ...
... sexual competition . We first real- ize that the author has somehow gone wrong when Lesser makes love to a black girl with a group of hostile blacks , including her boyfriend , waiting for them across the hall - an absolutely ...
Page 613
... sexual initiation came comparatively late . Not until after Elliott Nugent introduced him to college social life did Thurber start dating in earnest ; he was then twenty - two years old . From Paris during and after World War I , he ...
... sexual initiation came comparatively late . Not until after Elliott Nugent introduced him to college social life did Thurber start dating in earnest ; he was then twenty - two years old . From Paris during and after World War I , he ...
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