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...last of whom is identified laconically as "Secretary". What an apt symbol for the subjection of women in our society! Whatever the linguistic value of 'marked' and 'unmarked' members of linguistic pairs, is it not curious that common usage often marks 'Secretary' as female and last in line? Laura Mavis Gordon Teaching Fellow in Slavic Languages and Literatures Assistant Tutor in Eliot House Patrick J. Ryan, S.J. Teaching Fellow in General Education Tutor in Eliot House
...LAURA BROWN Cleveland...
Jane S. Kumin of 4 Washington Avenue, Cambridge; Laura E. Levine of Winthrop House and Stanford, Connecticut; Lucinda A. Lyons of Quincy House and Sheffield, Alabama; Marylyn E. Newman of Dunster House and Rensselaer. New York; Jane B. Phipps of Peabody Terrace, Cambridge; Linda C. Roth of Jordon J Hall and Kensington, Maryland...
Although Jerome at first quickly discounts the idea, he finds himself drawn to the 15 year-old Laura, claiming his pleasure is only the voyeuristic one the audience is gaining. After a brief flirtation, in which little more is established than the romantic idealism of the young, Jerome drops his dalliance with Laura, but begins to find her sister Claire desirable. Telling Aurora that he is a lead character in a play of his own devising, he becomes attracted to Claire's knee; when he finally caresses it, all his desires are consummated. He leaves Annocy feeling that he will...
...only to be rewarded sporadically with tiny, almost imperceptible, triumphs. The largest of these victories over rotten circumstances belongs to the shy daughter. Tillie, who successfully mounts a science fair project dealing with the effects of radiation on the growth of marigolds. It is as small an event as Laura's dance with the Gentleman Caller in the Williams prototype and just as affecting. Craftily enough Zindel goes on to turn this rinky-dink science fair exhibit into a metaphor that ties the whole work together in a neat and ambivalent fashion by the final curtain...