Word: minot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good for either side. The men, selfish and distracted, bolt at the first hint of that dread word, commitment. The women work at being hip and wary but are as overmastered by virility as any Victorian maiden ("With his touch, the will seemed to drain out of her"). Susan Minot, who made a notable debut with her 1986 novel Monkeys, has a laser instinct for the clinching detail and the giveaway phrase. She can summon descriptive power when she wants it ("Clouds rose up, golden, fisted, dwarfing the islands"). But the very unity of this collection produces a sameness...
...Susan Minot...
Stephen Reid Minot '72, Chester king '72, Michael Felsen '71, Alan Zaslavsky '68, Martin Hanlon '69, Eric Entemann (GSAS'67), James Lester '69, Peggy Lester (KSG '88), Carl D. Offner '64, Sarah Glazer '70, Eric S. Roberts '73, Chester Hartman '57, Alan Gilbert '65, Aldyn McKean '70-'71, Susan Jhirad '64, Molly Backup '72, Mary Ellen Burns '70, Henry J. Sommer '71, Dale B. Fink '71-'72, Harry Rudloe '73, Craig Unger '71, Carol Sternhell '71, deborah Johnson '71, William M. kutik '70, Jan L. Handke (SPH '75), Mark R. Cullen '71 M. Barry '70, Mary Summers '70, Virginia Vogel...
...into history, catch the "Minot's Light Revisited" cruise to the South Shore beacon this Sunday. Boats leave hourly from Government Island at Cohasset Harbor and head for the seaman's beacon, where a narrator will discuss the history of the light and the dangers it prevents. Tickets are $20. Call...
Clearly there are those around Cambridge who are afriad of giving them a fair hearing! Jerome Minot...