Word: ellen
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...idea. Burgess, 69, has recaptured the same linguistic verve and inventiveness that marked his earlier fiction, especially The Doctor Is Sick (1960) and A Clockwork Orange (1962). He has also created a heroine to rival, in nearly every respect, the comically seedy poet Enderby, hero of four Burgess novels. Ellen Henshaw is an old woman living in the south of France when she decides to set down her memoirs, with the stenographic assistance of one Rolf Marcus, an itinerant and blocked American journalist who needs the lodgings that she can provide. Ellen confesses, up front, that she has been known...
...Ellen Gilchrist...
THERE ARE SOME striking similarities between Klass' work and Ellen Gilchrist's Drunk with Love. Both document floundering relationships. Both authors create characters who are obsessed with appearances. Each collection includes a story about a diet. Klass' story, "The Secret Lives of Dieters," traces the disintegration of a relationship throughout a diet. Gilchrist's is bathetic. It opens with a report of the death of JeanAnne Lori Mayfield who ended the last diet she ever undertook by crashing into a doughnut shop, killing two people...
...club helps international students realize that they are not alone, Ellen K. Dyvik '87 said. When the Norway native joined the club, she "understood that, ya, I'm not the only one who had to go through that adjustment period," said Dyvik, who was president of the club last year...
North House residents will probably have to sign up to eat at a Thursday dinner featuring Ellen Hume '68, White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and several Neiman fellows. Before the dinner there will be an open symposium with the guests...