Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TWIN THEMES of isolation and imprisonment pervade the work of American women writers, whose art pulses with the strain of creating in a culture that relentlessly associates creativity with maleness. "The soul selects her own society, then shuts the door," begins one of Emily Dickinson's best-known poems. Dickinson's poetry reflects her unique physical, as well as spiritual, confinement; a life-long recluse, she shut herself up in her father's house and composed taut verses proclaiming the isolation of the human soul...
...American and European literary luminaries, who frequented dinner parties at her splendidly appointed homes and accompanied her on sight-seeing jaunts across the Continent. And yet the terrible aloneness of Wharton heroines like The House of Mirth's Lily Bart was their creator's as well; for, like Dickinson, Wharton imagined herself "as gazing out through the bars of a prison at the procession of life...
...lack of evidence, the police department is investigating the alleged rape of a woman cop by a sergeant during a stakeout of an office building. All of which suggests that the life of a female on a big-city force is not quite as simple as that of Angie Dickinson on NBC's Police Woman. In fact, says D.C. Officer Delores Henneghan, 21: "It's like Peyton Place...
...Play you have to be obsessed with him. And even then, after all the bullfighting imagery and its inevitable companion concept, colones or balls), boxing imagery, war imagery, big game imagery, rain imagery, woman as nursemaid imagery, even than anyone obsessed would be so battered by a Complete Emily Dickinson and vacate to Antherst...
...dean of Dickinson College recently did away with the school's dean's list after close to one-third of the student body achieved the 3.5 GPA necessary to qualify...