Word: compton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Compton Cup Regatta will be held on the Charles May 4 to highlight the local crew season. Five races are slated for the heavyweight sweepswingers with the 105th Yale race on June...
...Compton Cup: Boston University, Dartmouth, M.I.T., and Princeton on Charles...
...What? Incest again?" fans of Ivy Compton-Burnett will cry upon opening Brothers and Sisters. Again an old desk, locked for decades, containing a letter containing the terrible truth? Again a hard fate visiting the sins of the father upon the children...
These are among the fixed, solemn bells on which Author Compton-Burnett has managed to ring wild, gay changes for more than 30 years (e.g., Bullivant and the Lambs, Two Worlds and Their Ways). But no matter how worn her plots may be, the conversation is sure to be spangled with jewels that, to her devoted followers, still proclaim her a Cartier of contemporary fiction...
Brothers and Sisters concerns Sophia and Christian Stace, who have been happily married for more than a quarter-century. Then one day poor Christian opens the fateful desk and finds a letter saying that he and Sophia had a common father. How could that happen, even in a Compton-Burnett plot? This way: Christian had never known who his father was. had grown up simply as the "adopted son" of Sophia's father, old Andrew Stace. In point of fact-as the letter now reveals-he was old Andrew's illegitimate son by a neighbor of theirs...