Word: missing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faculty met for about two hours after the mass meeting and decided instead to allow students to miss their exams and make them up later. It refused, however, to cancel classes or exams, as the student gathering had requested...
...Sarah Caldwell, the estimable leader of the Boston Opera Company, has labored for years to keep some sort of permanent company in Boston, but she has been only mildly successful. With no regular theatre, and only the financial support which she can raise through the force of her personality, Miss Caldwell has gargantuan problems in putting on a full schedule each season. For several years now, she has attempted to produce the Boston premiere of Roger Sessions' Montezuma . but financial problems have prevented her from doing...
...well. The story of an Atlantic crossing between Vera Cruz and Bremerhaven in the 1930s, it is a parable of the growth of Nazism and a chilling view of human nature. The wayward characters are so often compared to animals that they seem to comprise a floating zoo. Miss Porter has often said, "I am a passenger on that ship," and it is understandable that when the book's heroine finally leaves the ship by launch, she turns her back to it and never once looks over her shoulder...
...caustic, illusionless side of Miss Porter that pervades much of this collection of essays, reviews, asides and letters. Only a few well-made literary essays-on Thomas Hardy, Eudora Welty, Willa Gather-reflect morning freshness and intelligence at high noon...
...rest of Losing Battles is devoted to remembering and burying Miss Julia. She spent a bitter life in a Sisyphean struggle to nudge Banner out of its happy bondage of ignorance and kinship into the modern world. The symbol of her defeat is Jack Renfro's beautiful wife Gloria, a Mortimer protegee who actually won a statewide spelling bee and succeeded Miss Julia as schoolteacher. "She stands for all I gave up to marry you," says Gloria. "I'd give her up again tonight. And give up all your family...