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...rejected Captain Frederick Went-worth, the only man she ever loved, all because of the well-meaning "persuasion" of her family and her best friend, Lady Russell. As the novel opens we see Anne fading into her unmarriageable 30s, with only herself to blame for her loneliness. When Captain Wentworth unexpectedly returns to her life, there is a sense of desperation in Anne's response; this is her last chance to be happy...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Persuasion Full of Fine Details | 10/12/1995 | See Source »

...Hearing air force and navy troops marching upand down the streets near our dorms were constantreminders of the war," Edward T. Wentworth Jr.'44-'43 says. "It was a regular topic ofconversation during meals and at the libraries...

Author: By Tazeen Ahmad, | Title: Campus Arms For Fight | 6/7/1994 | See Source »

...cartoon was drawn by Princeton junior Wentworth Miller. Because of problems with the page's layout, it appeared in the space usually reserved for official editorial positions of the newspaper...

Author: By Jennifer L. Burns, | Title: CAMPUS WATCH | 2/19/1994 | See Source »

...nearly bare stage. Ann Crumb, who starred in Aspects of Love in London and on Broadway, makes modest Anna's eruption into passion completely believable and is deeply affecting in her final derangement. Surrounding her are exceptional men: Gregg Edelman as the hapless gentleman farmer Levin, Scott Wentworth as a reckless but wholly admirable version of Vronsky and, most striking, John Cunningham, who overcomes caricatured writing of Anna's estranged husband to reveal a man poignantly wrongheaded and, in his way, as doomed as his desperate spouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Epic Writ Small | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

After spending three months learning English at Northeastern University, he was admitted to study electronics at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Roxbury. Even though he had been exposed to the best Haitian schools offered, Wernher found American education different, and more difficult...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: THE SMILING FACE BEHIND THE COUNTER | 12/7/1991 | See Source »

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