Word: cather
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Women like Celie and Sethe triumph over tremendous odds because they are able to reach deep down inside themselves and find their own strength. Isn't that quality what forms the backbone of such classics as Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter or Willa Cather's My Antonia...
Gays have long gossiped about which public figures of past and present might be secret homosexuals. Publications from the scholarly to the semi-scabrous have speculated about the likes of Alexander the Great, Shakespeare, Willa Cather and James Dean, with hundreds of others cited along the way. This name dropping is defended as a way of giving the gay community role models and a sense of continuity. When the rumors involve living people, however, discussion about who is "in the closet" has generally been held to a discreet murmur -- partly in deference to libel laws but mostly in defense...