I applied to Cambridge, because I was still thinking of... I suppose, Leavis, and of Cambridge as being in the forties, a stronger literary place, but the other three guys who got Henrys were all scientists, and so they all went to Cambridge, and I said, 'OK, Oxford's fine'. And so I wound up at Oxford, and I wound up in Christ Church, because the dean of Christ Church was an ex-Henry fellow... he was Canadian, and he was having to do with the distribution of Henry fellows in... at Oxford, and so he picked Henrys for his college. And, it was a good thing, because Balliol had about 80 Americans in it - very, very bright... famous names now, more or less - but they tended to gather together, they tended to eat together, and so on. Christ Church was 530 students, and there were only 12 Americans, and we knew each other, but knew necessarily we were put into an alien milieu. And Christ Church was more alien than many of the other colleges would have been, because it was Eton, and Harrow, and Winchester, and so on. It was the remnants of the posh universe, and it was... there were a lot of fox hunters, people ran to the hounds and so on. It was really alien, and I loved it... just for how different it was. I had never been out of my country until that summer when I went over early after graduation, and was here in New Hampshire only one day that year... but I went over and traveled in France, and Italy, and Scotland, went up to the Edinburgh Festival, went to the Festival of Britain and I saw my first, big, large scale Henry Moores out of doors there, and was very impressed. Went to the theatre a good bit. This was a time in London when you could stand in line, and... and have a seat way high up in the theatre for 35 cents, two and six, be a few rows down for 50 cents, three and six, it was amazing. And I saw Donald Wolfit do Tamburlaine at The Old Vic. I saw Peter Ustinov do The Loves of Four Colonels. I saw The Lyric Review, which was very funny. I can remember plays that I saw in that first few weeks just before I went up to Oxford.
