![]() ![]() “In such high points as the cultural week-end, the summer ball, and Dixon’s catastrophic public lecture on Merrie England, Mr. ![]() Jim is entangled stickily with Margaret Peel, a leech-like colleague, who has caught him in that worst of nets by making him the confidant of her extremely complex emotional troubles. The Welches are the are the arty week-end type, ‘the home-made pottery crowd, the organic husbandry crowd, the record-playing crowd.’ The Professor’s painter son, Bertrand, the classic fashionable poseur, becomes the implacable foe of Jim over the matter of attentions paid to the blond Christine Callaghan. He is trapped in the social orbit of the Welches, whom he loathes, and it is upon the Professor’s set that Mr. For him it is no more than a running duel with his superior, Professor Welch, a continual speculation as to whether he will be dropped at the year’s end or continued on probation for another year. “The academic life is sketched in a kind of hilarious hatred through Dixon’s eyes. ![]()
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