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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ladd replaced Elizabeth R. McKinsey, who stepped down last spring to become a dean at Carlton College. McKinsey was also associate professor of English and American literature...

Author: By Maggie S. Tucker, | Title: Bunting Fills Leadership Post | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

Dudley House Katherine Lawyer History and Literature Anne H. Wheeler English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Taps 24 Radcliffe Seniors | 12/13/1989 | See Source »

Lowell House Jennifer L. Bader English Ellen Lebowitz Social Studies Amy J. Merritt Psychology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Taps 24 Radcliffe Seniors | 12/13/1989 | See Source »

Although it has long been famously neutral, Switzerland, as an English scholar once wrote, "has been in a state of war every weekend since 1945." The gibe has more than a little truth to it. On weekends rifle ranges around the country resound with the din of thousands of Swiss practicing their marksmanship. At the same time, Northrop F-5E Tiger fighter jets skim along mountain faces and blue-gray-uniformed figures clamber down couloirs and across alpine meadows. With a militia of 625,000 men, Switzerland, as the well-worn saying goes, does not have an army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Switzerland The Swiss Army Gets Knifed | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...with delicious style. The great gray lady of movie drama brings her precise acting tools to a comedy of manners, flouncing wittily onto a couch, exhaling every word in swooning intimacy, switching from fawn to fume in the wink of a lover's indiscretion. She can even speak American English without an accent. Surprise! Inside the Greer Garson roles Streep usually plays, a vixenish Carole Lombard is screaming to be cut loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Warty Worm | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

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