Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Society has its own publishing firm, Western Islands, but carries as a service to its members hosts of books like Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm, as well as Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind. But the Society's own "brilliant" writers are rather obscure--Welch's choice in 1965 for "quite possibly the world's greatest living scholar," Relivo P. Oliver, was a professor of classics at the University of Illinois...
Almost from the start, Caldwell was bright, determined and, if not alone, then frequently on her own. "I try not to be a stage mother," says her mother Margaret, A "but she was very gifted, with a great fondness for mu sic and great reading and mathematical abilities at an early age." Sarah's parents were divorced when she was an infant; until she was remarried twelve years later, the mother was frequently away continuing her own graduate studies in music. Sarah stayed with relatives, who saw to it that mementos from her mother were on hand. "Because...
...survey, conducted at CHUL's request, found that crowding at the Union and at even the most popular dining halls is within acceptable limits, Margaret Ross '76, Lowell House representative to CHUL, said...
Radcliffe students elected their marshals for the class of 1976 last spring. The First Marshal is Teresita Alvarez. Jane Borthwick, Susan Handy and Margaret Ross are the other marshals...
There is no greater test of character than bad luck-except, British Novelist Margaret Drabble suggests, good luck. The heroine of her latest novel owns a cornucopia: money, a handsome London house, a triumphant career as an archaeologist, four well-behaved children, a liberating divorce and a sensitive lover. She is also afflicted with an abundance of 20th century guilt. What has she done to deserve all this? she muses. "Her grandfather had grown tomatoes and potatoes. Her father had studied newts and become a professor of zoology. And for herself, as a result of their labors, the world...