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...lives of its four leading characters, Greeley explains in a foreword, are shaded by one or more of the traditional seven cardinal sins (pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth). Greeley follows Patrick Donahue, his friend Kevin Brennan, and the two women in their lives, Ellen Foley and Maureen Cunningham, from a pre-seminary adolescent summer to the slopes of middle age. As a priest, Kevin is a controversial writer and social scientist who bears an unflattering resemblance to the author. Donahue, clearly more fictional, is a cleric whose path through the hierarchy to Cardinal glides steadily up despite...
...will field seven strong candidates--incumbents David Wylie, David Sullivan, Saundra Graham, and Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55, former city councilor Mary Ellen Preusser, current school committee member Alice Wolf, and well-known State Senate candidate Wendy Abt. The more conservative Independent block will probably be led by four incumbents--Walter Sullivan. Thomas Danchy, Leonard J. Russell, and Alfred E. Vellucci--and a former councilor, Daniel Clinton...
...depth study in remorse. As much a philanderer as a workaholic, Kitchen neglected and betrayed his wife to the point of heartbreak and death. The memory haunts him ("Why did you die, my dear?"), and as he whimpers and then howls his wife's name twice, "Ellen ... Ellen!" toward the icy stars, the play ends in anguish...
Interestingly, the four departments that will gain a tenured woman next year--Anthropology (Sally Falk Moore). English (Marjorie Garber). Psychology and Social Relations (Ellen J. Langer, associate professor of Psych and Soc Rel), and History (Angeliki Laiou)--all were underutilizing. Department members decline to comment on whether gender played a role in those deliberations, though Rosovsky had met beforehand with the four and the underutilizing departments...
...back-to-campus blue blazer with white piping, Ellen Putter could pass for a senior psych major at most Ivy League schools. But professors at New York City's Barnard College better not treat her like one. Last week Putter, 31, a graduate of the women's college and Columbia Law School, was named president of Barnard, Columbia's sister school. She thus becomes the youngest woman head of a major U.S. college. Actually, she has been acting president while on leave from a New York City law firm. Putter's no-nonsense managerial style...