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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muriel Speare Williams, who retired last week as administrative assistant at the Loeb Drama Center of Harvard University, and Professor Kirtley Fletcher Mather, Professor Emeritus of Geology at Harvard, were married yesterday in the Memorial Church of Harvard University...

Author: By Anne HEBALD Mandelbaum, | Title: At 89, Professor Gets Married in Memorial Church | 6/1/1977 | See Source »

...room for suspense. When the action drags, it makes little difference whether the crooks wear habits or five o'clock shadow. Nothing new emerges about the Watergate fiasco--except that it is difficult to make an entertaining film out of it. Robert Ender's screenplay, an adaptation of Muriel Spark's novel The Abbess of Crewe, manages only to trivialize the scandal, and any profundity about absolute power corrupting absolutely is lost beneath gossamer one-liners...

Author: By Hilary B. Klein, | Title: A Habit Worth Breaking | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

Last year. All the President's Men; this year, all the abbess's nuns. Nasty Habits, adapted from Muriel Spark's 1974 novella The Abbess of Crewe, uses the goings-on at a Roman Catholic abbey outside Philadelphia to burlesque the Watergate affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sounding Brass | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...bored with all that hoop, you can always watch the Muriel Cigar Open of the pro bowlers tour...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: SPORTS | 3/17/1977 | See Source »

...Muriel Andrew Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 28, 1977 | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

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