Word: buren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...property laws that had been written for and by husbands. Burr always had his way with women. In addition to fathering one legitimate, beautiful and brilliant daughter, he has been credited with numerous "foundlings." Though there is no evidence, it was even whispered that the eighth President, Martin Van Buren, was an adulterous plum off the Burr family tree...
...magazine, and one that makes the issue a more than usually valid one for seeing what student writers are and aren't accomplishing. Dwight C. Barnaby's first chapter from a forthcoming novel (Durftenfaust) is too short to demonstrate more than a snatch of potential, but Alice Van Buren's "Twelve O'clock" (another first chapter) does more. It begins the memoirs of a self-pitying, broken-down, and impotent young Bohemian painter who's retreated so far from the world that he has absolutely no one to talk to-an unlikeable schlemihl, except for his occasional self-denigrating humor...
Richard A. Dey Jr. '73 of Mather House and Morristown, N.J., Poetry Board Editor: Alice C. van Buren '74 of Dunster House and Princeton, N.J., Prose Board Editor; Brian Bohn '74 of North House and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Art Editor; Glenn M. Schwetz '73 of Eliot House and Wala Wala, Wash., Dionysus; A. Peter Fabry of Eliot House and Hoboken, N.J., Graduate Editor...
...Hall of Presidents, a super-American show that opens with a 12-minute film summing up U.S. history and then presents all 36 Presidents, artfully duplicated and carefully robotized (Andrew Jackson keeps whispering to Martin Van Buren as each leader is introduced...
There was a certain nostalgia in the episode, a glimpse of the 19th century days when Washington was a more crudely physical place-the brawling floor of the House was called "the bear garden" and Vice President Martin Van Buren wore a brace of pistols to preside over the Senate. In the terms of Charles Reich (The Greening of America), this was not even Consciousness I, but Consciousness ½. A day or two after the Boggs-Mitchell match, the former's House colleague, Edward Hebert, telephoned: "Hale, Hale, sign nothing! Don't do a thing till...