Word: wrens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...placed 671 children in 473 black foster homes during the past two years by recruiting prospective parents at churches, civic centers and homes. In January the agency sent them all letters asking if they would be interested in adopting. "We received 125 affirmative answers," boasts agency director Willy Wren...
Many of those elected with Julia mirrored her reaction. Most showed pleasant surprise and said that election to Phi Beta Kappa had never been one of their goals. "Why would anyone set Beta as a goal? It is the work that goes into it that matters," said Celia Wren of Quincy House said...
...Literature, Mather House; Martha L. Moore, Religion, Lowell House; Penelope C. Papailias, American Literature, Eliot House; Annie Penn, Biology, Dunster House; Lisa P. Reiss, Psychology, Winthrop House; Kathryn E. Rorer, American Literature, Eliot House; Elizabeth Safran, Geological Sciences, Cabot House; Heidi M.V. Sullivan, Anthropology, Lowell House; and Celia M. Wren. Literature, Quincy House...
...group make an effective transition from the light and silly first act to the whiny and petulant second act. But I feel sorry for Molly Hoagland, who has to stand erect and keep a straight face while Trig Tarazi hides and busies himself beneath her skirt, and for Celia Wren, who has to deliver a somber soliloquy about how, as a middle-aged divorcee, she rediscovered masturbation...
...sophistication. Yet the Prince had a point. Architecturally, the capital lost its way after World War - II. Shortsighted planners with paper-thin budgets did compound the devastation of the Blitz. The glories of John Nash's Regency terraces, Inigo Jones' Banqueting House, John Soane's Bank of England and Wren's churches were juxtaposed with discordantly cheap, gray cement-and-glass office boxes and grim "purpose-built" public housing that sprouted in craters left by German V-bombs. Squares and courtyards were bulldozed flat. Planners who felt that London was too dense and dark decided that new buildings should reach...