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...taking the semester off, will hurt, the rest of last year's squad is back and healthy. Sophomore sensations Jenny Stricker and Kate Wiley are both in good shape and should continue to dominate their opponents. Other returning standouts are Grace Defries, Lucy Ashby, Ellen Gallagher, Mary Jean Barret, Kathy Good, and Wiley McCarthy...
...book's protagonist, Gene Barret, (misspelled relation of Oliver?) is an ambulatory cliche. Forced to endure a college education at the insistence of his father, Gene floats from one campus to another, accumulating credits, and a paucity of genuine academic knowledge. His list of truncated enrollments growing, he dauntlessly pursues the elusive college degree at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. There, in a gut history course called George Washington One, Gene meets Louise Fern, teacher and future room/bed mate...
...refuse to deal with Miller because they consider him a Communist sympathizer. Soon Prince, now skimming ten per cent profit, begins to front for two other blacklisted writers in addition to Miller. As a fringe benefit Prince attains celebrity status and the attentions of his attractive script editor Florence Barret (Andrea Marcovicci...
Outraged by this episode, Barret quits her job as Sussman's assistant and asks Prince to join her in writing a pamphlet exposing the industry's blacklist. But Prince, content with the benefits he is reaping from the system, has no intention of ruining his secure position. That position, of course, is not as secure as Prince thinks, and he discovers the perilous consequences of the witch-hunt mentality when he, too is investigated by Hennesey and subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee. His appearance before that committee forces Prince to confront what he has tried to ignore...
...works are the products of a seminar on the textile traditions of Native America and include both ancient and modern interpretations of centuries-old techniques and designs. While you're there don't forget to stop and see the original plaster cast of the clasped hands of Elizabeth Barret Browning and Robert Browning made by Harriet Hosmer...