Word: isabell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quest for a merely personal righteousness. The play is about the inevitable injustice of middle-class justice, which measures justice out as though it were possible to measure people's lives by absolute, fixed units like the monetary standards on which the play's moralists finally rest their morality. Isabel cries, for example, that death is "cheaper" than dishonor...
Throughout the thirty years of his scientific romances and prophecies Wells was in a constant state of emotional flux. His first marriage to his cousin, Isabel, in 1893 lasted only two years. He then married his mistress, Amy Robbins, and soon asked her to "accept" his promiscuous ways with other women. She accepted it, but certainly Wells's life was profoundly affected by his short-term infatuations. The MacKenzies explore his wanderlust as one of his deep-seeded conflicts between rationalism and irrationalism--and this seems to make a great deal of sense. Wells always saw in science both...
Researchers Isabel Lenkiewicz and Adrianne Jucius compile all the information for the maps and charts. Lenkiewicz majored in cartography and geography in college but stresses that "there are no schools where you can really study journalistic cartography. It's much more important to be interested in a wide variety of subjects than to know how to draw a map." Jucius and Lenkiewicz also deal with telephone callers requesting special geographical information. One caller posed a question that no one minded answering: "Are you the guys who make complicated things simple...
...there are additional factors. Isabel G. MacCaffery, chairman of History and Lit, said last week that the major she oversees was formed as a way to surmount departmental boundaries, so that a limited number of students could study the interaction of history and literature in a particular country or time period...
Noting her dyed blonde hair (it had once been chestnut brown), many Argentines complained that she intentionally made herself up to look like Evita. Others simply found her cold. "If Eva Peron was passion compressed," grumbled one Peronist, "Isabel is an icebox...