Word: foxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wise Virgin is about a few months in the life of Giles Fox, a medievalist who lost his eyesight after 18 years of labor on a scholarly edition of A Treatise of Heavenly Love, a 13th century meditation on virginity. Two virgins attend him: his pretty, unworldly teen-age daughter Tibba, named for a 6th century East Saxon princess, and Louise, his frumpy, incompetent, adoring assistant. (The manuscript is imaginary, and Wilson, who has taught Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, has fun cooking up swatches of 13th century English.) Giles and Tibba live in a bare house in Islington ruled...
...CLUB IS A PLACE that I can call my own," says the president of the Fox Club, one of Harvard's exclusive all-male societies. "It's just a place to go to get away from Harvard...
...event also triggered scrutiny of the security procedures which allowed it to take place, and whether the provisions should be revised. Yale officials have said they will compile a report this week, and the school will reassess its game-time stadium security. Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59, said he will push Ivy League administrators to examine the issue...
...meeting of the Committee on Student Life, Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 said the issue will be investigated by athletic directors throughout the league...
...Fox said he will bring up the issue at a meeting of Ivy League athletic directors next week...