Word: maclean
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peculiar, idiosyncratic. The books you keep for the middle of the night serve a deeply personal purpose, one of companionship. Your connection with them is a mystery of affinities. Each mind has its night weather, its topographies. I like certain books about fly fishing, for example, especially Norman Maclean's brilliant A River Runs Through It, which, like fishing itself, sometimes makes sudden, taut connections to divinity...
...book KGB: The Inside Story. In addition to revealing in a TIME excerpt last week that President Franklin Roosevelt's key aide, Harry Hopkins, was an unwitting accomplice of the KGB, Gordievsky contends that Cairncross was a member of a spy ring that included Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt. Though Cairncross was ousted from a sensitive government post in 1951 for allegedly passing documents to the Soviets, his spy connection was never proved. Last week he continued to deny that he is the missing link. But British intelligence sources back up Gordievsky's story...
Natalya Freeland, Adams, Literature; Sheila Kannappan, Cabot, Physics; Annette Kim, Leverett, Chemistry; Rebecca Maclean, Dunster, Psychology; Elspeth McIntosh, Lowell, Classics; Janet McIntosh, Cabot, Anthropology...