Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Biographers have played Halloween with the ghost of Emily Dickinson. They Trick or Treat her remnants and if the treat proves not sweet enough, the trick is to corner her ghost and shake the memory of her until it faints into their already rattling paper bags. The truth is coated in coconut, and chocolate, and pistachio to satisfy the historical sweet tooth. (Her unidentified lover has been said to be Judge Lord, T.W. Higginson, her brother Austin, and her father, Edward Dickinson.) The ghost is unable even to say Boo. Emily Dickinson's grave has been a raucous place compared...
...Ghosts and Rats. The military's detritus is not confined to the frozen north. Camp Kilmer, near Edison, N.J., is a decaying ghost town of fire-gutted barracks and shattered glass. Unfenced, it is a tempting playground for exploring children. While squirrels and kangaroo rats nest in the bomb craters that pock 10,000 acres of California's Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, the area is off limits to human visitors because it contains unexploded bombs and rockets left there 30 years ago, when the Navy used the park as a test-firing range. Although much...
Heavy Freight. Yet Wonderland is anything but a catalogue of cheap shocks and thrills. It is in fact the author's most ambitious novel-a long and breathless ghost hunt that attempts to confront that elusive subject, human personality. Where does it reside? More important, is it relatively stable or does it change faster than most people dare to think...
...highly moral virgin, and she lived like an absolute nun. She would have deplored the sexual-freedom aspects of today's movement." Contemporary Susan B. was talking about her grandaunt, Women's Rights Crusader Susan B. Anthony, whose influence she describes in her newly published autobiography The Ghost in My Life (Chosen Books, $5.95). "I spent so many years of my life resenting her and wanting to live up to her," said Susan, who has apparently exorcised her aunt's troubling spirit by writing the book. "Now I'm very proud of her; I think...
This go-round, Van Dyke is cast as the host of a TV talk show in Phoenix, Ariz.; Hope Lange, after two seasons of sublimation in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, plays Mary Tyler Moore. In the witless premiere, Van Dyke was stuck with one joke, and one as grizzled as his new sideburns: the recidivism of reformed smokers. But the second episode-concerning the humiliation of a local-station headliner screen-testing for a network slot-portended a return to form by TV's consummate situation comedian and by the series' witty "creative consultant," Carl Reiner...