Word: companion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chased down by a gang of about 17 young men who threatened her with a club and raped her. Before she was taken to the hospital, Claudia was able to point out some of her assailants to police. They arrested seven neighborhood toughs, aged 17 to 20, including her companion who had joined in the attack...
...Nostrand has formed a nonprofit corporation-the Center for Research in Writing-to promote his course, and spends much time pondering new ways to teach writing-and its necessary companion, thinking. "If we could get at what you do when you learn by writing," he muses, "then we'd know how to teach people to think." Anyone for functional thinking...
...average starting salary for University of Illinois vet graduates in 1975 was $17,-580 for work in private industry, in such fields as pharmaceutical research. After they complete the required four years' training, the overwhelming majority of new vets go into private practice, many specializing in treating "companion animals," the nation's 60 million dogs and cats. A busy vet tending pets in Manhattan or Beverly Hills can earn $50,000 a year or more. Increasingly, however, vets are opting for what is known in the trade as a large-animal practice, which means caring for the nation...
...latest work is a learned, immensely readable study of Schubert's life and songs. The volume grew out of a long article Fischer-Dieskau wrote for his three-volume, 29-LP collection of Schubert lieder issued by Deutsche Grammophon seven years ago. There is also a companion volume, the Fischer-Dieskau Book of Lieder (Knopf; $15), containing texts and new translations of the singer's favorite German songs...
Lancelot's book-length monologue is addressed not only to the reader but also to Percival, a priest-physician and boyhood friend. His name rings of both the author's own and of Lancelot's companion in the Arthurian legend. He is silent, staring at a girl out the window until the book closes with his response to Lancelot that is Percy's hope for a rejuvenated Christianity...