Word: oxford
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...produced exemplary children's books. Of course, scholars and artists are not new to the libraries of kid lit. A generation ago, Essayist E.B. White composed his classics Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web, and Humorist James Thurber wrote The Thirteen Clocks, just as, a decade before, Oxford Don J.R.R. Tolkien had written The Hobbit, and before him, another Oxonian, Lewis Carroll, had produced the Alice books. But seldom have parents and children been offered such a multitude of first-rate works (see box) along with the customary flood. Such volumes are candidates for two librarians' awards...
...excess-wondered what all the fuss was about and could not quite understand why some of the junior staff at the office would suddenly break into tears in the middle of the day. "A garden-variety Nobel prizewinner would not get this kind of treatment," said a teacher in Oxford, England. Across the Atlantic, in schools and on college campuses, those from other generations showed almost as great a sense of puzzlement, even distance, as of loss. Gretchen Steininger, 16, a junior at Evergreen Park High School in suburban Chicago, said, "I recognize...
Indeed. Since coming to power after Guyana gained its independence from Britain in 1966, Burnham, an Oxford-trained lawyer, has often been accused of rigging his own election-day heroics. Critics claim that in 1973 he padded his first post-independence victory with the votes of 70,000 dead or nonexisting people. Guyana's army seized the ballot boxes after initial returns seemed to be turning against Burnham. When the results were announced a day later, he had won a satisfying two-thirds majority...
...achievements, she scarcely rates a sentence in Louis Untermeyer's 757-page Lives of the Poets: The Story of One Thousand Years of English and American Poetry. The magisterial Norton Anthology of Poetry carries 19 women out of the 200 poets represented by name and The New Oxford Book of American Verse, twelve out of 77. This anthology redresses the balance. Say the editors: "The one art in which women have always excelled is poetry." The question of whether there exists a common female culture and sensibility, as postulated by Poet Adrienne Rich and other feminists, awaits just such...
After graduating from Wellesley, Keohane studied at Oxford and Yale universities. She joined the Stanford faculty...