Word: drown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...illustrious school, a very..." The fans drown Travolta...
Perhaps it is this dearth of activity and lack of places to escape to that brought well over 100 spectators to Dillon Pool last Saturday to watch the Princeton Tigers drown the Harvard aquawomen by a convincing margin. More probably, however, it was because the Tigers have a devoted following that attends every meet--a following the high caliber of their swimmers and the stellar quality of their divers merits...
...drown or is at least considering the possibility. The first stanza is cheery enough, but it really belongs to another poem. The sense of advocated surrender in the final stanza is unmistakable. Not that Reagan would be unusual in having contemplated death as a way out of adolescence, but one does not think of his early life as having been touched with "sorrow and pain." Of course, the poem might simply have been the product of a bad moment. But even a momentary touch of desperation is interesting in such...
...when she mentions the "immortal rhythm" of their quiet times together in Sussex. This final volume closes with the simple, moving note she left him when, at 59, fearing the loss of her artistic gift and sensing the onset of another bout of madness, she decided to drown herself: "Dearest, I want to tell you that you have given me complete happiness. No one could have done more than you have done . . . But I know that I shall never get over this: and I am wasting your life...
...results are not always salubrious. Hidden flaws can appear as well as unsuspected virtues; repetitiveness may drown out variety. But Author Eudora Welty, 71, survives the ordeal of retrospection beautifully. Her Collected Stories reprints all the works from four earlier collections, plus two previously uncollected pieces written in the '60s, a total of 41 stories dating back to 1936, when a "little magazine" called Manuscript first published her. At that time, the young Mississippi writer could not have guessed that she was enlisting in a new confederacy of Southern letters, one that would rapidly push her forward...