Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Radcliffe finalists are: Lowell's Janet W. Rich '84 and Christa L. Kuljian '84. Leverett's Vanessa A. Davila '84, Kirkland's Rosemarie Sabatino '84, North's Elizabeth A. Heneghan '84, Stacey Lewis '84 of Currier, Carla Ann Harris '84 of Quincy and Joan E. Gould '84 of Eliot...
...much of his anguish, ironically heightening its impact on the reader. More important, Brill's determination to carry out what he regards as his mission in the face of these obstacles endows him with a necessary depth of character. The resulting intensity of the novel surfaces in language so rich with imagery and metaphor that parts of it read like verse...
THIS DESIRE to unite his "two minds" and escape the horror of his past leads Brill to America. There, with the aid of a rich benefactress, he founds a primary school devoted to "the fusion of scholarly Europe and burnished Jerusalem...astronomers and God-praises uniting in a majestic dream of peace." However, his impatience and frustration with the mediocrity of both students and teachers soon causes his sense of alienation to resurface. Not until Hester Lilt, a renowned academic, enrolls her daughter Beulah in the school does Brill begin to show a genuine interest in the progress...
Perhaps the most dramatic revolution in the way people live was wrought by technology. In 1923 private telephones were still largely playthings of the rich. Many rural areas had no electricity. The automobile was beginning to appear in large quantities. Radio's early enthusiasts tinkered with crystal sets in their living rooms just as today's home-computer buffs hunch over their machines...
...turned it down-the actress who was moved, she says, by the script's "straight, basic, clean emotion." She is today's closest approximation of the old-style star, with the Beverly Hills mansion, the marriage to the industry and the chance to become very, very rich...