Word: letters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like the Carver figure in "Intimacy," Chekhov did not try to excuse himself from the theft. His reply to her letter was gentle. He wrote about the weather and his plans for a trip abroad. His response to her accusation was a plea for compassion: "All I can say is: another man's soul is a dark well...
...leading Soviet actor, Mikhail Ulyanov (who often plays his eponym, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin), cited a now famous letter, printed earlier this year in the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya, from a Leningrad schoolteacher that criticized glasnost. Ulyanov warned that all too many intellectuals "snapped to attention and waited for the next orders" as a result of its publication, convinced that the period of openness was about to end. Others, unhappy with glasnost, criticized the Soviet press for carrying the campaign too far with its newfound appetite for muckraking. Calling those who produce such fare "princes of extremism," conservative Novelist Yuri Bondarev...
...eight, speaking no English, when his family fled Castro's Cuba. Brought up in Los Angeles, he now divides his time between a house in suburban Pasadena, Calif., and an apartment in Manhattan. A would-be actor, he began writing plays when a therapist suggested he compose an imaginary letter of forgiveness to his mother. Among his best works: The Modern Ladies of Guanabacoa, an evocation of the complex caste system in Cuba six decades ago, and Once Removed, which captures the bafflement and determination of a family uprooted by the Castro revolution and exiled...
Just one month after the eight-time varsity letter-winner graduated, Sasner was named to assistant coaching positions for both the Harvard women's soccer and ice hockey teams, Director of Athletics John P. Reardon '60 announced this week...
When Summer School professors arrived to teach, several said that although a letter about the changes was sent by Buck, they didn't talk to him about the matter and were surprised to find that teaching assistants had not been assigned to their courses. The professors said they wrote letters and called the Summer School office until TFs were finally found...