Word: alcotts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Katharine Susan Anthony, 87, bestselling biographer of some of history's more notable women, a onetime Wellesley College geometry teacher and psychiatry buff who enthusiastically delved into such psyches as those of Catherine the Great, Marie Antoinette and Louisa May Alcott, caused a furor with her 1945 The Lambs, in which she theorized that Essayists Charles and Mary Lamb turned to writing as a sublimation of their incestuous love; following a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...could be the end of a beautiful friendship" with WBZ-TV, one disgruntled fan commented after a projectionist left out the film's middle reel. WBZ filled the remaining time with "The Life of Louisa May Alcott," instead of rounding up the usual suspects again...
...they not died recently, the library would not have Robert Frost, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway. But the American classics, old and new, are there: Emerson, Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Whitman, Melville, Henry Adams, Henry James, Mark Twain, O.Henry, Sinclair Lewis, Howells, Fitzgerald-and, should presidential browsers care, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women...
...Reading comprehension is low: the average U.S. twelfth-grader understands only 67% of what he reads in Louisa May Alcott's Eight Cousins, only 28% of Thomas Mann's Dr. Faustus. The rate for magazines is 78% for Modern Screen and Silver Screen, 54% for the Saturday Evening Post, 35% for TIME and 28% for the Atlantic...
...Cornhill has long been one of the favorite browsing grounds of the great literary figures of New England. John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and scores of others prowled through the shops there often. Whittier's earliest works were first published in one of the printing shops in the area, as were the first editions of numerous now-famous pieces of American literature...