Word: edithe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there were ever a play in which style was more important than substance, it is The Importance of Being Earnest. If the Huntington Theatre's current production of the classic Oscar Wilde satire falls short on verve, therefore, it almost makes up for it by enough elegance for three Edith Wharton novels...
...accomplish this and to pick their favorite rooms, Weisman and her group of judges, Anna R. Dale '96, Edith A. Replogle '96 and Dorota Ostrowska, a visiting student, are "seeing the way [students] live through the environment they've designed for themselves...
...worth remembering (and is documented at some length in the Phillips catalog) that the Migration series could not have been done without several grants from the Rosenwald Fund, instigated by Locke, and might never have acquired a public life without the determined backing of the art dealer Edith Halpert...
...first it seems rather surprising that a translator as extraordinarily gifted as Edith Grossman should have rendered the title of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's new book, Doce cuentos peregrinos, as Strange Pilgrims. The Spanish literally means something like "Twelve Peregrine Tales." Yet a Spanish/English dictionary will tell you that "peregrino," besides "pilgrim" or "peregrine," also means "strange," "exceptional," and "perfect." It's easy to sympathize with Grossman, for there is no way to convey these connotations in one word. However, all those words are perfectly applicable to Garcia Marquez's first book since The General in His Labyrinth...
...relationship not unlike that of the United States and England, the former interaction is vastly more complicated and tortuous. The U.S. need no longer have an inferiority complex with respect to Europe, such as was depicted in Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad or in just about all of Edith Wharton's novels. The U.S. can now stand as an equal with the European nations; indeed, it has come to overshadow them. Latin America has had no such luck. In all sorts of pervasive ways, Latin America still lives with the burden of Europe, and the stories in Strange Pilgrims...