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...compliments, his doting voice touched with a gentle Irish lilt. She fusses coquettishly with her hair and teases him lovingly about his snoring. Soon, however, we learn that Mary is not only trying to overcome a morphine addiction, but also is fraught with worry for her frail younger son Edmund, whose "summer cold" shows signs of being consumption. The elder son Jamie, it turns out, is a ne'er-do-well actor, a disappointment to his father with whom he quarrels incessantly...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: Long Night | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

...family's bitter and guilt-ridden past. The well-bred Mary regrets all she abandoned to marry the dashing actor James Tyrone--the aspirations of becoming a nun or a concert pianist, the niceties of the settled home life she has always craved. She blames herself for bringing Edmund, a sickly baby, into the world, and for disgracing her family by being a "dope fiend...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: Long Night | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

Tyrone, meanwhile, has injured every member of his family with his unrelenting stinginess, having lost his grand chance of becoming a great Shakespearean actor. When Mary was ill after giving birth to Edmund, he hired a cheap, incompetent doctor who introduced her to morphine and whose improper medical care caused Edmund's serious tuberculosis...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: Long Night | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

...instructor in Business Administration, Edmund M. Goodhue '68, helped the club obtain the necessary insurance. Epps gave the club full status as a flight instructor during January, after Harvard lawyers decided that the club's insurance was sufficient...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flight Insurance | 3/1/1984 | See Source »

Hart's triumph must be ranked among the most stunning upsets in primary history. McGovern was considered in have won a victory in the New Hampshire Democratic primary in 1972, even though he lost by six percentage points to the then front runner, Sen. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn and The CRIMSON Staff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Hart Stuns Mondale in New Hampshire Upset | 2/29/1984 | See Source »

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