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Outlet for Energy. Hermia's altruism is untypical of Compton-Burnett's predatory female dictators. Eliza is more in character: "Autocratic by nature, she had become impossibly so, and had come to find criticism a duty, an outlet for energy." When Hamilton's first letter of proposal to Hermia arrives, Eliza wants to answer it herself. When a second comes, she opens it and attempts to hide it. Like her predecessors in earlier books, Eliza is not only shameless, but awash with grandly rhetorical self-pity: "Years of care, of asking little for myself and accepting less...
Falling a half length behind at the start. Harvard's varsity heavyweight crew stormed back in the second 500 meters to gain a length lead which it managed to keep. The victory Saturday on Princeton's Lake Carnegie gave the Crimson its ninth straight Compton Cup win over Princeton and M.I.T...
...down the Charles with his dog Ralph. And when Harry is upset, Ralph is surly. But even more important, Parker's mood means his varsity crew is not up to par. So, when the squad loaded the bus this morning for the trip to Princeton and tomorrow's Compton Cup, seven personnel changes or seat switches had been made in the first boat lineup in an attempt to remedy things. For the moment, Harry was happy and Ralph was home in Winchester...
...four types, it has the highest proportion of nonskilled and service workers-janitors, firemen, waiters, longshoremen, common laborers and the like-and the lowest proportion of commuters to the central city (34%). Here, on the average, 12% are black-although in some cases, as in East Orange, N.J., and Compton, Calif., blacks have become a majority. Residents register Democratic overwhelmingly, 63% to 28%, and generally vote that way as well. But even here, Nixon squeaked out a 1 % margin three years ago. Understandably, those who live in Low-Income Stagnant communities say they enjoy their lives less than Americans...
Rikert had his best finish of the season at Middlebury, placing 16th out of a field of 60. Compton has been racing steadily, but has been unable to crack the top 20 consistently...