Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will be evicted from my room on Friday, June 5. Since I will not be able to move into the graduate dorms until the 12th of June, I have one week of dead time--and no place to store my stuff...
THIS NOVEL, MARGARET DRABble's 12th, concludes an ambitious project that the author began with The Radiant Way (1987) and continued in A Natural Curiosity (1989). Essentially, Drabble has been trying to counter the solipsistic bent of so much contemporary fiction, that wan parade of heroes and heroines talking to themselves -- usually about themselves -- and deaf to anything beyond the echoes of self-consciousness. Novels, particularly Victorian triple-deckers, once made room for the outside world, for the ways that history, politics, economics, etc., impinged on the lives of ordinary people. Are such narratives impossible now, or have most novelists...
...squad finished with an overall 13-1 record (6-0 lvy), secured its 12th consecutive Ivy League title, retained its first place ranking in the national Brine poll, and captured the first seed in the upcoming NCAA tournament...
...weekend indeed. On Saturday, the Crimson (4-0 Ivy, 9-1 overall) plays host to 12th-ranked Cornell (3-1 Ivy, 8-3 overall) Saturday and then Old Dominion (2-3 Colonial, 5-10 overall) Sunday...
...NOTEBOOK: All-America goaltender Scott Bacigalupo finally got some rest Saturday. After Princeton's 12th goal in the fourth period, Tierney sent in reserve Dave Shefferman. The senior, however, got about as much action as he would have on the bench. He had to make only one save...Maybe it was the cold weather, but Tierney was as bitter as could be Saturday, chiding the referees all afternoon long. Who knows what he was angry about? His team got called for only one penalty all game...Harvard junior Marty Dolan tallied a goal and an assist, including Harvard's last...