Word: ega
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Profoundly blasphemous, searingly angry, Ega de Queiroz' chronicle of the tragedy that follows is at once a chilling morality tale and a corrosive indictment of the priest-ridden society of Portugal in the 1860s. The book was written in 1871, but Queiroz had his troubles getting it published. After it finally appeared in 1874, it was inevitably put on the Index. But by the time Queiroz, a patrician career diplomat as well as author, died in 1900, he was recognized not only as Portugal's first realistic novelist but his country's greatest writer of prose. Widely...
Neither the Radcliffe Government Association nor the Radcliffe administration would predict last night the future of a proposal allowing each Radcliffe dormitory to stablish its own parietal hours. The EGA will consider the proposal at its meeting today...