Word: mawr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FAILURES ONLY MARRY" was reputedly the favorite assertion of the founder of Bryn Mawr College, but Susan Braudy remembers the now-cliched warning differently, as "Only our failures marry." The distortion was handed down to Bryn Mawr women by their predecessors and it reveals the underlying ambivalence pressuring women at elite colleges in the 60s. In Braudy's case the indecision focused on whether to be the writer or the writer's wife...
...thrust of the novel appears to be a modern attempt at D.H. Lawrence's St. Mawr--the good versus evil, wildness versus civilization animal as metaphor for our darker, more ancient selves kind of struggle. It's all lost in the movie. Jaws flows along the course of a lot of films adapted from hooks--to shallower waters. Brody is a piece of white bread. Robert Scheider's portrayal of a keeper of the peace is about as inspiring an Andy of Mayberry. There's nothing wise or animal about Robert Shaw's Quint. What you get is the perennial...
...daughter of a physicist, a Bryn Mawr alumna and a Radcliffe Ph.D. in economics, Rivlin, 44, is the wife of a Washington lawyer and the mother of three children-whose tasks have been lightened by housekeepers throughout her career. She became interested in economics during a summer course at Indiana University. Says she: "It seemed less fuzzy than history or political science." Short (5 ft. 2 in.) and an impeccable dresser, Rivlin is regarded by colleagues as even-tempered and firm but not stubborn...
Died. George H. Earle III, 84, New Deal Governor of Pennsylvania; of pneumonia; in Bryn Mawr. Scion of a wealthy Main Line Republican clan, Earle was so moved by the miseries of Depression-stricken workers, which he witnessed from the serving end of a breadline, that he joined F.D.R.'s Democratic Party, and as Governor of Pennsylvania (1935-39) pushed through a "little New Deal" of labor, tax and welfare reform, boasting, "We have let no one starve in Pennsylvania...