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...acute knowledge of the heart's foolishness, of the forces that isolate and diminish the aging, of the helplessness of the poor and the unlucky to alter the course of their lives. "Distressed gentlewoman" is a phrase that echoes sadly through her writing. The Sweet Dove Died-an exception among her novels, since neither clergymen nor anthropologists figure in it-is about a vain, middle-aged beauty who drives out her tenant, Miss Foxe, an ancient who lugs buckets of paraffin up several flights of stairs to heat her top-floor flat. In Quartet in Autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Praise of Excellent Women | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

...just dove in front of the train like she was jumping into a swimming pool," said Floyd L. Bailey, one of about 25 passengers on the platform...

Author: By Michael F. P. donning, | Title: Woman Leap From Platform At Holyoke MB'FA Station | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...that hit the airwaves three months before the Christmas bombing of Hanoi, surely did so. Like the surgeons whose no-sweat heroism it celebrated, the series began by operating on the wounded American body politic with skill and daring good humor. For half an hour each week, hawk and dove could sit together in front of the TV set and agree: war is an existential hell to which some pretty fine people had been unfairly assigned; now they were doing their best to do good and get out. As the Viet Nam War staggered to a close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: M*A*S*H, You Were a Smash | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...period's final moments, Blair stopped the most serius threat of the evening to his shutout when Bruin wingers Joe Kuzsnest and John McEvoy (no relation to Harvard, goalie Dickie) skated in on a two-on-zero break Blair dove just before the buzzer to block the pass to McEvoy with his stick...

Author: By Jim Silver, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Destroy Brown, 7-0; Stay on Providence's Tail | 2/26/1983 | See Source »

...Tuesday's B.C. game, guard Ann Scannell also last her starting position through injury. Scannell dove for a loose jump ball and flew through the B.C. bench into the bleachers. After getting up with the trainers' assistance. Scannell clutched her ribs. She fractured a couple of ribs but plans to be playing in a week. Horne, less fortunately, has been given an eight week recovery date. Teammate Val Jordan has had a crutch since before the recess...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Harvard Hoopsters Nip Cornell, 51-50, Hang On After Early Lead Dwindles | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

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