Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prison. The sisters were raised amid the revolutionary passions of Belfast's working-class Andersontown district, an I.R.A. stronghold. As teenagers, they shared a liking for the Beatles and the Rolling Stones as well as for Irish folk dances. Both girls were and are devout Roman Catholics: a notebook that Dolours was carrying when she was arrested for the London bombings contained notes on the Virgin Mary along with details about her I.R.A. contacts...
...there an alternative to love? In these stories, written not long before The Golden Notebook (1962)-Mrs. Lessing's broadest consideration of all the wars between the sexes-her answer appears to be a rueful no. Those who want to live, apparently, are more or less doomed to love. But cheer up -a little. Love, like the blight in A Mild Attack of Locusts, can be endured. The sturdy wind up saying "It could have been worse." Mrs. Lessing has always been a slow, deliberate writer who seems unable to spare herself or her reader the slightest wince...
Lowell's prize-winning book is a continuation of his experimentation with the sonnet begun in "Notebook 1967-68." "Lowell invented the unrhymed 14-line form about seven years ago, and since then has made thousands of revisions," Elizabeth Bishop, lecturer on English and a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, said yesterday. "His new verse is full of marvelous imagery as it always has been, but I like 'History' best of the three recent books...
...known radical friends or sympathies, and the man she loved was severely beaten by her abductors. Finally, a piece of evidence was made public last week by the San Francisco Chronicle that undermined the theory. The newspaper reported that three weeks before the kidnaping, local police found a green notebook in which an unidentified S.L.A. member had jotted down these cryptic references to Patty: "At U.C.... daughter of Hearst"; "Junior?art student"; "Patricia Campbell Hearst... the night of the full moon of Jan. 7." Randolph Hearst called the notebook "unquestionable proof that his daughter had "in no way" arranged...
...uses a pair of tape recorders for much of his studying, taping lectures on one and dictating notes to himself on the other. "It is quicker and easier to learn from tape than to rely on Braille," he explains. His only Braille texts are a medical dictionary and a notebook of emergency procedures. He has learned anatomy by touch, sticking his hands into cadavers to learn the shape, location and feel of the body's organs. To master histology he listens to classmates' descriptions of cells seen through a microscope...