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Emily's parental configuration drove her to a mild homosexuality, hence her passionate school girl's correspondence, which Dr. Cody suggests could have been resolved by her implication in her brother Austin's courtship of her girlfriend, Sue Gilbert. Emily sought Sue and Austin homosexually and heterosexually respectively; this impossible sexual projection could have been worked out to Emily's benefit if Sue could have answered Emily's maternal needs and Austin her paternal needs. But the couple, frightened and confused by their role, withdrew from her. Unable to bear the consummation of their marriage in 1856, Emily...
...breakdown was the beginning of her retirement from the world. Her increasing reclusiveness brought increasing productivity, and in the early 1860's her talents crested. In 1862 she wrote three hundred sixty-six poems. The deaths of her nephew Gilbert at nine years old, her father, and then her mother dragged Emily into profound depressions, but never the psychotic depths she experienced between 1857 and 1864. It is known that she had a lover in 1883 when she was fifty-three; it seems that he made sexual overtures to her, and she, being unable to respond, lost all possibility...
Classics Club, President; QHT, producer of fall production; Quincy House Women's Crew; Swimming Instructor; Quincy House Theatricals; Gilbert and Sullivan, costumes; Grant-in-Aid, costumes...
Delayed Paychecks. Nor was there reason to. Even before the tragic turn of events, Bayh's high-financed, super-energy campaign was falling apart. The money that had once been provided in such abundance by financiers like Gilbert Flexi-Van Corp. Chairman Milton Gilbert and Spartans Industries Chairman Charles Bassine had lately slowed to a trickle. Twice during the summer, Bayh was forced to delay paychecks for his staff. The impressive organization that had been the envy of his rivals was beginning to unravel. Around Washington during the past several weeks, rumors had been circulating that the Bayh campaign...
...larger vocal ensembles, Mem Church, and the two orchestras are not all Harvard has to offer. The popular Gilbert & Sullivan Players perform twice a year: Lowell House and Leverett House sponsor opera in the spring. All of these groups--along with Charlie Kletzsch's indefatigable Dunster musicians and their midnight clavichord concerts--are more or less permanent. Other groups come and go as members drift to and from the blessed attractions of political activism...