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...Humboldt. An author's weave of truth and invention is difficult to unravel, and never more so than in a semiautobiographical work like The Bell Jar, which was first published in Britain in 1963, just a month before Plath committed suicide. The story of a young woman's descent into madness spoke to the rising women's movement as well as the romantic instincts of the college generation, and when the novel appeared in the U.S. eight years later, Plath became a cult figure...
...considering the geographic origins of the 147 people, the biologists were even able to determine where Eve lived: samples from those of sub-Saharan African descent showed the most intragroup differences, implying that their mtDNA had had more time to change and thus that their ancestors arose earliest. This finding plus the structure of the family tree indicated sub- Saharan origin, a conclusion that agrees with current archaeological and anthropological theory...
...Number of Presidents of Greek descent...
Watching Reagan's tragic descent, however, inspires only one thought in the audience: that fool has done it again. It is a feeling of pathos, not of real tragedy. Consequently, this new production fails to evoke a true feeling of suspense; the audience knows full well how the plot will end. All that remains to be seen is how the action will resolve itself in getting to an all-too-predictable destination...
...THERE IS more to Kirkland's descent into drugs than the demands imposed on a dancer's body and emotions. Kirkland is cursed with the fatal possession of an active artistic mind and a drive for perfection. Her attempts to assert her individuality and to practice her craft, she tells us, were received almost universally with contempt by Balanchine and his disciples...