Word: ninth
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...Modern Library edition of the book. But can the series' success at home be duplicated here? It's hard to say. As Masterpiece Theatre host Russell Baker wryly suggests, many Americans, like himself, developed a terminal aversion to Eliot's writing after having to read Silas Marner in ninth grade. That is a shame. Middlemarch is truly among the greatest books ever written and is, as Virginia Woolf put it, "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people." Its author, whose given name was Mary Ann (later Marian) Evans, was a Victorian feminist who lived openly with...
...addition to the prospect of playing an unbeaten team, the Crimson was pumped before the game because of what it perceived to be a lackluster effort over Spring Break in a 13-6 loss to ninth-ranked Duke...
...Grand Rapids, Minn., native finished ninth in scoring in the nation, racking up 30 goals and 31 assists in 38 games at left wing this season...
...only they made 'em like they used to. To me, the Broadway opening last week of a revival of Carousel prompts the thought: Thank God they don't. I'd far rather see Miss Saigon for a fifth time, or Les Miserables for a ninth or even return to The Phantom of the Opera than ever again sit through the longueurs of Carousel, however pretty its candy-box score...
...talked about it in the campaign," he recalls in a conversation in his unpretentious ninth-floor office on Houston's Memorial Drive. "Single biggest thing, the decline of the family. We were written off as rabid right-wingers" for saying so, Bush remembers. "Clinton goes and gives a speech in the South, a good speech, and people say, 'Ain't it wonderful he's putting focus on the family.' And I'm glad he is. But you know, as I look at society, we're far worse off in that regard...