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...might be thought that having created this sometimes fascinating and occasionally excruciating little chronicle about a lonely boy growing up in England just after World War I, Anthony West should not be plagued by any novel reader's knowledge that the author is the natural son of Rebecca West and H. G. Wells. Yet the book, which seems to be a fictional memoir, is profoundly preoccupied with its hero's growing awareness that the woman posing as his aunt is really his mother, and that he himself knows nothing about his father. Born in 1914, West...
...anyone who was at University Hall that morning, Harnett's testimony must seem nothing short of ludicrous. A picket line of at least 300 students blocked off that building in one of the loudest and most spirited protests Harvard has ever seen. As Rebecca Scott '71, a member of the Strike Steering Committee, testified at the trial, "It was clear that what was happening at University Hall was not just a bunch of people milling around, but an organized demonstration." And in addition to her testimony, two members of SDS testified that Ryan could not have been at the protest...
...REBECCA HORN San Francisco
...Married. Rebecca Welles, 25, daughter of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, a recent drama graduate of the University of Puget Sound in Washington; and Perry Moede, 22, a sculptor; both for the first time; in a private ceremony in Tacoma, Wash...
...scrupulously contained performance, Rebecca Thompson's Hedda is remarkably affecting and finally tragic. In part, this is due to Ted van Griethuysen, whose deliberate gravity of direction achieves cumulative emotional intensity. Hedda moves inexorably toward tragedy in that her ultimate foe is not the world of mere men but what O'Neill called "the God of Things as They Are." She regards suicide as the perfect act of courage because it is her non serviam to that god, her defiance of human fate...