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...Romance covers 20 years in the history of the Zinns of western Pennsylvania. From the abduction of the youngest sister, Deride a "strangely haunted child" to the "final bold stroke of midnight, December 31, 1899." "Although presented as a true chronicle the events tend towards the fantastic from the initial sequence in which Deride disappears in a black silk balloon. Yet such events are treated as commonplace (if confusing) as is sexual mutability. Neither ghost nor devil is long absent from the Zinn hearth...
Martin picked up the first Harvard score by being in the right place at the right time. Trailing 1-0, Crimson Co-Captain Maureen Finn hit a penalty stroke from just outside the top of the penalty circle Left wing Jennifer White picked it up in a crowd and slapped the ball toward the Husky net. Northeastern goalie Sandy Ward made a pad save, but Martin was there for the rebound. Finn swept the ball to the right and poked it past the diving Ward into the corner of the goal to knot the score at the 19 minute mark...
DIED. Grace Kelly, 52, Her Serene Highness of Monaco and Academy Award-winning actress; of a stroke and injuries sustained in a car accident; in Monte Carlo (.see NATION...
DIED. Duncan Norton-Taylor, 78, longtime writer and editor at TIME and managing editor of FORTUNE from 1959 to 1965; of a stroke; in Easton, Md. A World War II correspondent and sometime author of fiction, he viewed the editor's role as one of "pushing, tugging, urging, restraining" and never got over the "suspicion that writing is more...
...process he often produced a curious scragginess. The parts of the bodies rarely connect well, and have noli me tangere written all over them. Sometimes his lumpish ladies on the beach suggest Thurber. In Matisse, no matter how reduced the outline may be or how schematic the stroke of the crayon that says "eye," "breast" or "hip," one can almost always sense the live weight of a body, its organic relationship of part to part, its accessibility to touch. This ability to translate the presence of the physical object into abbreviated signs without sensuous loss is a precondition of good...