Word: putney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Karen Chase, the celebrated basketball star at Windham College up in Putney, Vt., has split her off-campus house to head south for Saturday and Sunday...
Although Ken Willis was one of the top junior cross country racers at Putney, Vermont, where he went to high school, he was unable to run more than three races last year. This year he has come on strong, finishing fifth in his class at the Londonville Cross Country meet...
ELIZABETH STEVENS, 23, is the closest of the six to the semi-hippie life of "Consciousness III." Once a social activist at Wheaton, a fashionable women's college in Massachusetts, she now lives in a ramshackle house near Putney, Vt. Mike Kronley, her roommate, is teaching her photography, and she is baking bread and eating organic foods...
PETER LUKE'S Hadrian VII is a mediocre play with one outstanding central character. Structured like The Wizard of Oz, with a plot line that could have been borrowed from Putney Swope, this comic fantasy has more possibilites as soliloquy than as drama. Frederick William Rolfe, English recluse and neurotic who imagines himself Pope, has dreams more concrete than Dorothy's and ambitions no less earthshaking than Swope's. In treating the complex syndromes of Rolfe, playwright Luke has sidestepped the Putney-Swope assumption that what is sick must be funny: the Oz alternative (what is sick should be taken...
...with her pickled onions and her rooming house, and (last but not least) become a glorious martyr. Rolfe is assassinated by Jeremiah Sant, the fiery Ulsterman who aids Mrs. Crowe the landlady in blackmail schemes. His dream rounds out his neurotic life ambitions with a thoroughness missing even in Putney Swope...