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Author Flannery O'Connor spent most of her adult life with her mother on a dairy farm just outside Milledgeville, Ga., up the road a piece from Macon and a middling way from Atlanta. Her isolation there began involuntarily. At 25 she was already a noteworthy Southern expatriate and a prizewinning graduate of the University of Iowa's School for Writers. She had put in time at Yaddo, an artists' retreat in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., along with luminous fellow guests like Robert Lowell. She had settled down in the Connecticut household of Poet Robert Fitzgerald, his wife...
...visiting people as I don't get around much and people seldom come to see us in the country." What might have been frittered away in conversation was thus preserved, and this accident of fate leads to a startling discovery: the most memorable character that O'Connor ever got down on paper...
...labor of love and an act of model scholarship. When factual information is needed, she gives it succinctly and then stands back. This record of a remarkable life is an occasion for sadness, a reminder of wisdom cut off much too soon. But the emotion that Flannery O'Connor conveyed most often was joy, and this survives intact. Once a correspondent had suggested that someone would write a life of the author. Flannery pooh-poohed the idea...
Singing In the Rain: Possibly the best musical Hollywood ever produced. A slick, colorful and very witty story about, you guessed it. Hollywood itself. There are so many great moments in this movie. Gene Kelly's wisecracking, Donald O'Connor's unrivaled comic dancing, and some great, great music. Corny? Naw. It's fun; if you've ever pattered through a puddle and whistled the one verse you know from the title tune, you owe it to yourself to see the film again--even if only to learn another verse. A must, with someone you love...
...been playing hard, even though we've been losing a lot of games," O'Connor said. "We're not giving up, there's second and third place at stake," he added. IVY LEAGUE STANDINGS LEAGUE OVERALL Pennsylvania 5-0 13-3 Brown 4-1 6-10 Columbia 4-2 11-7 Yale 3-2 8-8 Harvard 2-3 4-15 Dartmouth 1-4 9-7 Princeton 1-4 8-9 Cornell...