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...LIGHTS COME UP on the opening scene of Strokes suburban housewife Lily wheels her husband onstage to a melodious Muzak version of "Send in the Clowns." The bronzed baby booties and plastic flowers on the coffee table have been freshly dusted, plastic slipcovers protect all the furniture, and a large banner proclaims "Welcome Home, Daddy." But Daddy cannot hear the chirping cardinals or see the sunlight on this bright spring day. A stroke has left him a vegetable, and created the conflict of a black and bizarre comedy about an American family gone wild. Don't worry," Eily coos comfortingly...
Oarswomen in the first boat--including Jocelyn McArthur, Eleanor Prior, Alison Townley, Joyce Gallagher, Ellen Kennelly, Marianne Romak, Jenny Hale, stroke Rosemary Pugh, and cox Rachel Miller--began with a stroke rate of 40, settled in at a 34, and sprinted the last 20 meters at a 36, said Kennelly, who rounded out the first boat...
Women's varsity--1. Radcliffe (bow, Jocelyn McArthur; 2. Eleanor Prior; 3. Alison Townley; 4. Joyce Gallagher; 5. Ellen Kennelly; 6. Marianne Romak; 7. Jenny Hale; stroke, Rosemary Pugh; cox Rachel Miller) 5:30; 2. Brown...
...personal toll of the crisis was great: in late April, then-Dean of the Faculty Franklin L. Ford suffered a stroke, and later resigned; Fred L. Glimp '50, then-dean of the College, left Harvard for 10 years. On the student side, 13 were eventually asked to withdraw from the University, 20 were given "suspended suspensions," 99 were placed on warning. Many of those who participated in the strike, such as G. Garrett Epps '72, would say years later that the event remained "the most important experience of our lives...
Wilfred Barclay is an aging, alcoholic English writer who has experienced a Golding-like stroke of good fortune; Coldharbour, his first novel, written just after World War II, became a commercial and critical success and apparently goes on selling as vigorously as Lord of the Flies, Golding's first and most famous novel. "I hit the jackpot," Barclay says. "Someone has to." In addition to fame and fortune, he has also won Rick L. Tucker, a burly young American professor with designs on Barclay's literary remains. Their relationship begins badly. Hearing what he thinks is a badger...