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Anticipation crests into loss, an everpresent prod to characters like Elaine in Marian Thurm's Starlight, who has wistful memories of her children's freshly washed and pajamaed bodies...
...neuroses. Reading Rose's work is like turning a valentine to find graffiti underneath: not a pleasant experience, but a compelling one. The couples could not have been better chosen. Each contains one famous waiter: John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, Charles Dickens and George Eliot, nee Marian Evans. Three of the unions were devoid of passion, one degenerated into widely publicized scandal, and the sole happy one was the most shocking of all. George Eliot dared to live with a man without the sanction of either religion or the state...
Evans, who has yet to encounter any serious challenge to her number-one Eastern ranking, handily defeated UVa's nationally ranked finest, Marian Gengler, in straight sets, 6-2, 6-3. Against William and Mary, Evans faltered a bit in the second set but held...
...pilgrimage and personal example, Pope John Paul II has tried to encourage greater devotion among Roman Catholics to the Mother of God. His travels have included stops for prayer at such famous Marian shrines as Fatima in Portugal, Guadalupe in Mexico and Czestochowa in his native Poland. But a prospective 1981 visit to the most famous shrine of all, at Lourdes in southwestern France, had to be postponed when the Pope was shot in St. Peter's Square by Turkish Gunman Mehmet Ali Agca. John Paul believes that he owes his recovery from that attack to the Virgin Mary...
...Emperor has shared his quiet life with Empress Nagako, 80, whom he married, by traditional arrangement, in 1924. A merry music lover who has enjoyed command performances by Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson, Nagako is also a distinguished painter. On walks, the royal couple like to collect plants, which, it is said, he studies and she sketches. Together they incarnate the classical Japanese ideal of mutual devotion...