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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gannon also reports that the Union is home to a ghost. "He's a very benign apparition, and decidedly nocturnal. It's my guess that it's a wayward freshman from long ago," he said...

Author: By Michael E. Raynor, | Title: Freshman Dining Hall No Longer Serves up Wildebeast | 3/19/1987 | See Source »

Although he's never seen the ghost, Gannon said that he has "felt his presence." and claims that the spectre first made himself known in the late 1950s...

Author: By Michael E. Raynor, | Title: Freshman Dining Hall No Longer Serves up Wildebeast | 3/19/1987 | See Source »

...difficulty of breaking through White House image manipulation to get straight answers about U.S. policy, and has added timely passages about how isolation from press oversight contributed to the Iran-contra crisis. As tough on the page as on the screen, Donaldson prides himself on having written without a ghost, and the book's rambling, unpolished quality is more than offset by his anecdotal candor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Mar. 16, 1987 | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again." Lines like that were once the cynosure of adolescents and the despair of writers like Ernest Hemingway, who called their creator, Thomas Wolfe, a "glandular giant with the brains and the guts of three mice . . . the over-bloated Li'l Abner of literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lit Abner LOOK HOMEWARD: A LIFE OF THOMAS WOLFE | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

WITH THE TURN of the Screw, Henry James wrote perhaps one of the most controversial novels of the past century, a novel where two conflicting interpretations are both valid. Is it a ghost story or a psychological drama? The Innocents, an adaptation of the story, is William Archibald's attempt at resolving the issue. Originally meant as a movie screenplay,The Innocents has landed in Currier House, adapted to the stage by director Nicholas Martin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Theater | 3/14/1987 | See Source »

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