Word: ithaca
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This weekend, Brown and Princeton will compete for an untarnished record. Pennsylvania will travel to New York to face Columbia, Dartmouth will battle Yale and the Crimson will attempt to conquer Cornell in Ithaca on Sunday...
...there be anything more tiresome than hearing--or reading--about someone else's quest for spiritual enlightenment? Such accounts always tend toward the deeply sincere and the totally humorless. Anita Desai is therefore an intrepid novelist indeed; her Journey to Ithaca (Knopf; 312 pages; $23) traces the pilgrimages of not one but three seekers after truth, spelled with a capital...
...past life of the Mother. "I will make a connection between what you believe and what I know," she tells her husband. Her research turns up an engaging tale of the feisty young girl, half-French, half-Egyptian, who eventually became the Mother. But this half of Journey to Ithaca does not mesh convincingly with the saga of Sophie and Matteo; it seems less a tale within a tale than a totally discrete narrative. Desai beautifully describes the Indian landscapes, but the people who move through them, especially the three principals, seem so monomaniacal about their journeys that they remain...
...ESTABLISHMENT and our culture think every woman wants to look younger than she is and have a menstrual period forever? I'll be happy to take estrogen as soon as they come up with a pill that makes flabby, wrinkled, balding men over 50 look younger too. MEREDITH SMALL Ithaca, New York...
Under terms of his privilege, Lee's June 9 visit to Cornell's campus in the upstate New York town of Ithaca will remain the homecoming of a private traveler to his alma mater. That suits Lee well enough. A 1968 Cornell graduate in agriculture and economics, the Taiwan leader has lately made "private" excursions abroad the calling card of his quietly persistent efforts to break the island's isolation. Last year his golfing tours of some Southeast Asian countries, mixed with unofficial summiteering at the 19th hole, earned his style the label of vacation diplomacy...