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...Andrew Eliot left East Coker in Somerset, England, for Boston. Two hundred and eighteen years later, his direct descendant, Thomas Stearns Eliot--who would become the most celebrated English-language poet of the century--was born in St. Louis, Mo., to a businessman and a poet, Henry and Charlotte Eliot. Although young Tom was brilliantly educated in English and European literature and in Eastern and Western philosophy and religion, he fled--in his mid 20s--the career in philosophy awaiting him at Harvard, and moved to England. There he married (disastrously), met the entrepreneurial Ezra Pound and, while working...
After two periods of remissions and twosurgeries, Feldman, an eighteen year-old Dartmouthfreshman, died of brain cancer over Christmasbreak in 1988. His treatment included time at theDana Farber Cancer Institute...
Cynar came up with eighteen saved on the day for a gaudy 90-percent save percentage, but the Crimson defense was successful on only 30-of-39 clearing attempts...
Plans are completed for the Robert M. Beren Tennis Center, a new outdoor complex holding eighteen courts, a two-story pavilion and a permanent viewer seating area...
Initially, his characters' worries carry a touching level of insight into the sources of modern emotional malaise. Karen, awaking from eighteen years of slumber, describes how suddenly "nobody seems to be able to endure being by themselves...but at the same time they're isolated. People work much more, only to go home and surf the Internet and send e-mail rather than calling or writing a note or visiting each other." Yet as the story plows on, the barrage of philosophical ramblings begin to take on a preachy tone which descends into irritating evangelism. In the end, ghost-jock...