Word: larkin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...procession followed a rally at which area feminist leaders, students, and faculty members discussed violence against women. Local recording artist Patti Larkin appeared in a benefit performance along with the Radcliffe Pitches and Toba E. Spitzer...
...senior's time of 4:01.85 was second only to Oklahoma State runner Paul Larkin's time of 4:01.38. Sheehan garnered All-America honors last year at the national tourney with a fifth place finish in the 3000 meters...
...turn, encourage their supporters to buy the checks and use them for paying bills. A new check commissioned by the National Organization for Women debuted this week. Its message: EQUALITY FOR WOMEN. Message!Check is the creation of Priscilla Fenton, 38, a former Seattle Symphony fund raiser, and Amy Larkin, 31, who once produced financial reports on Wall Street. They have received orders for 3,000 batches, containing 200 checks each, for which they charge $14, or about twice what standard checks cost. For each batch of checks sold, Message!Check sends $1 to the group that supplied the slogan...
DIED. Philip Larkin, 63, critically acclaimed British poet of almost defiant diffidence and pervasive melancholy who once said that "deprivation is for me what daffodils were to Wordsworth"; of throat cancer; in Hull, England. A reclusive provincial librarian for more than 40 years after graduating from Oxford, Larkin honed his clarity of observation, particularly regarding homely, accessible subject matter, in two novels (Jill, 1946, and A Girl in Winter, 1947) and four spare collections of verse published at roughly ten- year intervals. He shunned the readings, lectures and interviews that increasing fame brought him. The overwhelming favorite to succeed Poet...
...previous literary decade. Having achieved a minor reputation in England during the '50s, she could not find a publisher in the '60s when London took to swinging. All that changed in 1977, three years before her death, when the Times Literary Supplement ran a feature on neglected writers. Philip Larkin and David Cecil, both authors of mighty clout, independently singled out Pym. Overnight, it seemed, her books were not only available but on the best-seller lists, and she had the kind of loyal following that usually requires years to build...