Word: past
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lind, who was born in Vienna and lived out the war in Holland and Germany, is not a German author at all and now does not even write in German, his first language. He is, in fact, a 42-year-old Londoner (by adoption) who writes in English. His past still troubles him so that he refuses, for instance, to read the writing of most Germans, including Grass. The present book, an odd autobiography, is chiefly a record of personal transformations, marked by an oppressive list of allegiances abandoned...
...which Daphne du Maurier lives, the book shrewdly borrows an old device to exploit the current literary craze for communication with the dead. Richard Young, a suggestible publisher, is persuaded by a scientist friend to be guinea pig for his latest discovery: a potion which abruptly evokes the past. One sip puts Young in the company of Roger Kylmerth, an early occupant of Kilmarth, who is immersed in the intricate plottings of the neighboring gentry and even a national struggle between partisans of Edward III and England's regent Isabella of France...
Shuttling between the intriguing past and the insipid present, Richard Young, a priggish fellow, attempts to keep his vulgarian wife ignorant of his new time travel kick but succeeds only in riveting her-and a wary community's-attention upon his strange behavior. Du Maurier's view of both modern and medieval marriage is remarkably waspish, but it is this very connubial bitchiness that keeps the novel from a routine Gothicism and makes it a stylish, contemporary entertainment...
...recount probably will not make any difference in the results of the Council race. Cambridge Election Commission officials said yesterday that the few recounts done here in the past have only confirmed the initial outcomes of the disputed races...
Every day during soccer season for the past 14 years, freshman soccer coach Dana Getchell '53 has taught Math at the Manter Hall School above Elsie's until noon, then headed for the practice field. He remains there until darkness drives him away...