Word: meads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SLEEPING MURDER by AGATHA CHRISTIE 242 pages. Dodd, Mead...
These doings might be supportable if Giles and Gwenda had only bought property in Miss Marple's home village of St. Mary Mead. Indeed, the biggest mystery about Sleeping Murder is the author's choice of setting. Sturdy though she is, Miss Marple seems off balance in Dillmouth, away from her cowslip wine, her knitting, her garden and especially her friends...
...women trying to prove that anatomy is not destiny and ?temporarily, at least, turning into cavepersons on the mixed-doubles courts as a result?may be either good news or bad in the long run. One who thinks cutthroat competition for women is bad is Anthropologist Margaret Mead. She admits that if women turn their backs on the home and childbearing, they may need sport to give them confidence in their bodies, as men have done since the beginnings of society. But she thinks Americans are terrible sports ("We're always saying, 'Kill the umpire' "), and she wishes that...
...book seems a bit like a sprawling rewrite of the four New York pieces, Dutton feels it has a bestseller on its hands. Sheehy believes she has "made a bridge between journalistic and academic methods." As the author tells it, she learned her anthropological methods from Anthropologist Margaret Mead in a post graduate year of study at Columbia. Sheehy contends that Passages could easily have been published as a doctoral dissertation to establish her credentials in psychology...
...sophomores who did not play last year--has rounded into form quickly, and Jim Michelson has contributed a solid effort in the net. There are two freshmen and two sophomores starting on the first two midfield, while two of last year's starters, co-captains Bruce Bruckmann and Scott Mead, are still out on a day-to-day basis with costly injuries...