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Robertson Davies' Alchemy; The Novelist, Mixing His `Magic Realism' and Brooding Over Canada's Spirit
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Nothing seemed so out of place at the University of Toronto in
the mid-1960s as Massey College, the new Oxbridge-style graduate
school that was the invention of a former newspaper publisher,
Robertson Davies.
Fellows at the college wore billowing black gowns, which Davies
grandly described as the "national dress of educated people," both to
classes and when they played croquet on the grassy quadrangle. At de
rigueur high table lunches, there was not only sherry but snuff,
served from little silver ornamental boxes. Grace was said in Latin.
For the budding flower children elsewhere on the ...
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