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ewmi.betotoCampus Fantasy‘THE SHORTEST GLADDEST YEARS,'* by Scott Sullivan. Simon and Schuster, $4.95.What do college students dooutside the classroom?Not much studying if youtake Scott Sullivan’s novel,‘‘The Shortest GladdestYears.” too literally.The book is mostly about high jinks in college, especial-]v at night. If there is anytime left over for home study, Sullivan never got around to telling about it.A casual reader sets the idea that Sullivan wrote about the college life as he would have liked it to be and not necessarily the college life he experienced.In any event it is obvious that “The Shortest Gladdest Years. is a fictionalized version of Sullivan's college days —and nights—possibly through rose-tinted glasses or is gilding the lily the appropriate descriptive term'’There are four central characters in the novel.Kevin. Martin. Anson, and Harry. The Shortest Gladdest Years,” is the story of how each of them viewed college life and what thev did*outside the classrooms. It is also a lt;torv of their girls, how they treated them, got along with them and without them, especially the story of Tina.•aho might be called the fifth roommate of this quartet of contrasting personalities.There are football weekend.-. ,-kiing trios and the philosophical diseu.-sions among themselves about life and girls and what they expect to make of their lives.The four become deeply involved in each other's problems. but then they would prefer to do almost anything else than study.Parents, who are hard put in financing the college education of a son or daughter, may have some misgivings in a reading his book about whe'h-*’ » r their ,-kimping is worth-1 while unless they convincethem-ehes that The Shortest Gladdest Years” is -atire and not intended to be taken tictoo seriously. ofL. V. Leslie frt
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Charleston Gazette Mail
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Sun, Sep 23, 1962
Page 17
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