Word: austen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...behind Clementine's correct facade was a heroine worthy of Jane Austen, as her daughter Mary Soames reveals in this fluent, dispassionate biography. The daughter of Colonel Henry Hozier and Lady Blanche Hozier, her upper-class but financially precarious parents, Clementine was a shy and teary child. But by the time she married Winston, she had blossomed as one of London's acknowledged beauties-and a lady who could speak her mind. She would interrupt dinner guests who monopolized the conversation-especially if their views did not agree with her own. She even upbraided Charles de Gaulle, when...
...Science Center, Boylston Hall and Lamont Library have already been altered in order to comply with the federal law. Watson Rink and Austen Hall are project cites for remodeling in the near future...
...shame that Gordon lapses into such a sloppy narrative after the powerful beginning of Final Payments. Despite her disappointing story line and characters, the author's language is straightforward and immediate. In providing minute descriptions of her characters' physical environment, Mary Gordon's prose echoes that of Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf...
Those who have denied Cheever this stature argue that his characters are too narrow and too much of a piece, that their sheltered lives yield up only hothouse malaise or gilded exaltations. Such complaints put Cheever in excellent company; the work of such different writers as Jane Austen and Henry James has suffered and easily endured similar cavils...
...quotes from and about writers) is devoted to buttressing the statements made in the essays. Olsen largely overcomes the problem of disjointedness by carefully organizing and tying these quotes together. She cites famous authors who have suffered "silences"--among them Thomas Hardy, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, and Jane Austen--as well as the less well-known, and the selections give on a good sense of the hell a lot of people have gone through for the sake...