Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pilgermann enthusiastically embraces the challenge. He tells what happened to him during his physical stay on earth; he also wants to explain why and to speculate on whether he had any choice in the matter. He knows that his troubles began when he entered the upper-floor bedroom window of Sophia, the tax collector's beautiful wife. Deprived of his manhood in consequence, he debates with his Creator: "O God! Why cannot I speak with a pure heart? I have done wrong and I know it, but how could you put Sophia into the world and expect...
...most extraordinary examples of Harvard fiction have taken as their setting a drab indoor location: the dormitory bedroom. There have been dozens of novels about Harvard over the years: novels about freshmen, novels about seniors, novels about faculty, alumni, and townies, novels that start off at Harvard and never return, and novels that check into Harvard and never leave. And virtually every one of them--as if to observe an unwritten rule of the genre--pauses for at least one bounce on a Buildings and Grounds cot before reaching its conclusion Surely no other segment of the population (with...
That's a lot of lava for any bedroom, not to mention a Lowell House single. But Faye Levine is only the latest in a long series of Harvard novelists whose scenes of passion defy all reasonable expectation. Who, for example, ever would have anticipated the peculiar interest several writers demonstrate for one Harvard landmark...
...then more. That is why several times last year Phil stood quivering and feverish in the living room, his loaded pistol pointed toward imaginary enemies he knew were lurking in the garage. Rita, emaciated like her husband, had her own bogeymen?strangers with X-ray vision outside the draped bedroom window?and she hid from them in the closet. The couple's paranoia was fleetingly sliced away, of course, as soon as they got high: they "free-based," breathing a distilled cocaine vapor, Phil alone all night with his glass water pipe and thimble of coke, Rita in another room...
...that calls for heirs to be left safe at home while their parents travel, Prince Charles, 34, and Diana, Princess of Wales, 21, are taking the baby with them. But while they pursue their six-week, 45,000-mile itinerary, William will be billeted at Woomargama, a rented six-bedroom estate set on 4,000 acres in the Australian province of New South Wales...