Word: kief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freshman Rick Kief (126 lbs.), a Massachusetts high school champion from Norwood, moves into the spot vacated by Yasunaga. Despite the fact that the departed Rhodes Scholar went 10-1-1 last year to cap a brilliant four-year career, Lee is so impressed by Kief that he expects no drop-off in performance at that spot...
Meanwhile, the diary continues to evolve untested. A handful of people had paged over sections and catalyzed rumors of its artistry, but they couldn't persuade her to publish. That would cut both an end from her existence--separating her from a "Kief, hashish, and opium pipe," a single staunch friend--and a beginning--because she filters her stories' "myth" and "poem" out of her diary's spreading tide. To Macmillan Co.'s rebuff of her novels as esoteric Nin counters: "An adolescent culture shows the adolescent incapacity to admire, to respect or to evaluate...