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...embraced the world as a social activist--a Catholic anarchist. Merton withdrew from the world to become a monk, memoirist, essayist. O'Connor lived surrounded by her famous peacocks on a farm in Milledgeville, Ga., her body restricted by disease, her imagination ranging with strange originality through a universe of her creation. Percy labored on, exploring the modern self that he considered essentially empty. Elie braids these four distinctive strands into a story, both inspiring and deeply intelligent, in which, as he says, "art, life and religious faith converge." --By Lance Morrow
...withdrew from Harvard for a year after her completing only her first semester...
This fall, early applications soared from their customary level of 6,000 to around 7,500. But according to Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73, 88 students who were accepted early—about one in 13—withdrew their applications when they were accepted to other colleges under binding Early Decision, slightly decreasing Harvard’s early yield, which at its traditional level near 90 percent is the highest in the country...
While most students in this situation honored their Early Decision agreement and withdrew, McGrath Lewis said, three or four failed to withdraw their Harvard applications. In one case, she said, the University was recently informed by another elite institution that a student whom that college had accepted under Early Decision was also accepted through Regular Action at Harvard after being deferred. When Harvard contacted the student, according to McGrath Lewis, she said she “forgot” that she was expected to withdraw her application to Harvard...
...Martha withdrew the pear tart from the oven, I remembered a pair of women, the wives of men serving in Iraq, whom one of the television news programs had interviewed. The first woman said that she watched television news all day in the hope of hearing some news of her husband; if something happened to him, she said, she’d want to know right away. The second woman, cradling a days-old baby her husband hadn’t yet seen, said that she never watched television: it made the war too real...