Word: marian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Christ Church Harvard Square, February 3rd, 5:00 P.M., Mozart, Telemann, and Buxtehude, with Evensong; Marian Ruhl and Richard Crist, soloists, with Ruth Belvin, Diane Pettipaw and Daniel Abbott, strings, assisted by the Choir...
...slope during an expedition to Antarctica. Vishniac's "Wolf trap" is the size of a cigar box and contains adhesive-coated strings that will be dragged through Mars' arid soil, then reeled into the container, where any life forms stuck to the strings will be detected. -Died. Marian Young Taylor, 65, known to radio listeners for 32 years as Martha Deane, the relaxed, knowledgeable interview hostess on New York's WOR; of cancer; in Manhattan. A onetime newspaper reporter, Taylor took the professional name of Deane in 1941 and questioned such guests as Dwight Eisenhower, Arnold Toynbee...
Robin, a fox, is a bit of a drag, though, and Maid Marian carries on with the giddy decorum of a sixth-grade class room monitor...
They desert her when she is aging and broke. That should probably be the end of the tale, but a coda finds Marian dying comfortably in Buenos Aires as the wife of a rich Englishman. It is a disastrous touch, the kind of thing that makes it hard, in the end, to take Cather seriously. Almost all her books drag on beyond their natural terminus, sometimes with two or three more stops. There is always some sentimental beneficence still to be dispensed, or worse, a moral toll to be exacted...
...women, Cather was wary of her sex. In The Professor's House, the melancholic hero-obviously speaking for the author-decides that Euripides spent his last years in a cave "because he had observed women closely all his life." Cather was also a prude. We are not told Marian Forrester drinks a little but merely get "the sharp odor of spirits." In My Antonia, the local lecher is obliquely indicated by the comment that he set a former housemaid up "in the business for which he had trained...