Word: pritchett
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...threaded his way up through fields of jagged boulders and knee-deep snow toward the summit of Colorado's Mount Bierstadt last week, Denver banker Don Pritchett looked forward to the splendor and isolation of the 14,060-ft. peak. But when he reached the top, he found he had to share the wind-torn precipice with nine other climbers and a Labrador retriever. According to a logbook wedged in the rocks, a dozen more climbers had already beaten him to the summit that morning...
...doubt we will ever see Senator Clinton represent New York State, but I would not be surprised to see Senator Rodham serving in that office. WILLIAM R. PRITCHETT Midland, Mich...
DIED. V.S. PRITCHETT, 96, writer, critic and all-around British man of letters; in London. Literally a child of this century, Sir Victor (he was knighted in 1975) turned out pithy, highly polished prose in a variety of genres, including travel writing, memoirs (A Cab at the Door, 1968), biographies, novels (Dead Man Leading, 1937) and numerous collections of literary criticism and short stories. He was a rare book reviewer who could also create memorable fiction. His stories, comic but sympathetic renderings of the antic aspirations of ordinary people, remained refreshingly old-fashioned and essentially timeless and enduring, given...
Anthony Catanese, president of Florida Atlantic University, called the decision "lunacy." Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, found it "startling." Even Kevin Pritchett, editor in chief of the right-wing Dartmouth Review, considered it "quite disturbing...
Perhaps by starting a new paper--one that is both witty and respectful--Pritchett can save conservatism at Dartmouth from the extremists and pranksters who have given it a bad name. No more free champagne-and-lobster brunches during campus-wide hunger protests. No more racist articles written in "Black English...