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Penn stunned the team ranked 17th nationally among Division I-AA schools after taking a 21-0 halftime lead...
...November Honig, a former elementary school teacher, beat the incumbent and popular superintendent by hitting again and again on the need for homework, discipline, high standards. California had ranked among the top three states in the nation on school spending per pupil until the mid-1960s. It dropped to 17th place in 1969, and after Proposition 13, to 31st place in 1981-82. And a marked decline in California education performance accompanied the decline in funding...
Virginia Woolf celebrated Mme. de Sévigné in a lyrical essay: "This great lady, this robust and fertile letter writer, who in our age would probably have been one of the great novelists ..." Thornton Wilder sketched an invidious portrait of the 17th century French author in The Bridge of San Luis Rey; the poet Alphonse Lamartine called her the Petrarch of French prose; Proust compared her art to Dostoyevsky...
...letters that dwell on Mme. de Sévigné's excessive love for her daughter. In translating the letters the author has frequently coarsened the elegant language of the original. She uses contemporary jargon and cliches-"peer group," "life-style," "role models"-to describe the world of 17th century aristocrats. "One of the great mistresses of the art of speech," as Virginia Woolf characterized Mme. de Sévigné, is said by Mossiker to have "verbalized as naturally as she breathed." Even so, the French writer's voice carries, resonating across the cultural and linguistic divide...
...tournament, playing at The Squash Club in the Allston section of Boston, upset top-seeded and ninth-ranked professional Jon Foster to win the open division. En route to the championship, Boyum defeated his teammate, roommate and fellow All-American, Richard Jackson, who had previously knocked off the 17th ranked professional and current Yale coach, Dave Talbott. Freshman Kevin Jernigan made it to the second round of the tourney...