Word: elinore
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Judy Rabinowitz captured third place in the cross-country, but the Cliffe's other habitual top-five finisher, Elinor Apthorp, missed the race because of tendonitis...
Publishing is by no means the only field in which American women have made significant contributions. Agriculture, for example, has profited immensely by women's innovations. Elinor Laurens of Ansonborough, South Carolina, became the first colonist to cultivate a wide variety of exotic fruits and vegetables-including olives, capers, limes, ginger, guinea grass and Alpine strawberries. The most exceptional female planter, however, is Mrs. Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 53, also of South Carolina. When only a girl, managing her absent father's large plantation with what one friend called "a fertile brain for scheming," Eliza decided to start cultivating...
...Other schools have professors who have never been in politics teaching political science. We want the person who has been a politician." Hence, faculty members-most of whom are part-time and untenured -tend to be well-known personalities in the metropolitan area. New York City Consumer Affairs Expert Elinor Guggenheimer teaches a course on the consumer and the marketplace; Village Voice Writer Nat Hentoff presides over a course in investigative reporting. Comedian Alan King, who got his start in New York clubs, has lectured on the origins of ethnic humor. Other New York personalities who have taught...
...concluding volume on Frost (it is now going forward under other hands and is expected to be ready next year). In the interim comes a fascinating sketch of Frost's last 25 years, written by the woman who became his secretary after the unexpected death of his wife Elinor in 1938. Kathleen Morrison, the wife of Harvard English Professor Theodore Morrison, was Frost's friend and principal day-to-day protector until his death...
...reticence. Still, she does not turn aside from what must be admitted about the man. When he was angry, she recalls, he would sometimes hide in the woods near his farmhouse, apparently hoping that his friends would think that he had come to harm. In the years after Elinor's death, she notes, "his incautious use of pills always stopped short of the ultimate message it was meant to convey...