Word: elgin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...administration has too often evaded the problem in the past, said GSC vice-president Elgin K. Eckert, a second-year graduate student in classics...
...lack of widespread discontent at Harvard can be attributed to the better care and compensation that Harvard provides its graduate students, says Elgin K. Eckert, vice-president of the Graduate Student Council...
Fagen was re-elected as president, Elgin K. Eckert became vice-president, Christine M. Millett was reelected as treasurer and Matthew P. Leingang was chosen as secretary...
...first novelist, gave us Rayona Taylor, the 15-year-old, part black, part Native American heroine of A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. You couldn't help falling for Rayona. She was plucky, pretty, buffeted by fate (her Indian mother Christine dies during the novel, and Elgin, her lackadaisical black father, is seldom seen) and crazy enough to enter a bronco-riding contest disguised...
...fury abates with Marcella, one of Bridie's daughters. Recovering in a TB sanatorium, she falls in love with Earl Taylor, a handsome young black man who delivers groceries. Their son is Elgin, and his daughter is Rayona. Dorris, whose own ancestry is Irish, French and Modoc Indian, writes that "the past ruled the present with unsympathetic dominion." And until Rayona, this is true. With her, the future is April going on May. Her reappearance at the end of this intricate and brooding second novel cools like a spring breeze...