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...with a Scarlet Letter on her breast. At times she rings of Emily Dickinson, "A bodiless soul could pass another soul. In this clear air and never notice it--", from the "Widow" a poem of the fantasies of grief clearly about her mother. A much less proficient poem "Black Rook in Rainy Weather" recalls in tone and subject to Robert Frost's "Dust of Snow" about the crow and the saving of a day he had rued, which in turn sounds like Aesop's fable of "The Fox and the Crow"--the same simpleminded experience...

Author: By Tina Rathborne, | Title: Sylvia Plath's Inferno | 10/18/1971 | See Source »

Barbic Grant and Julie Bradley in Division "A" took two firsts in the six races for 18 points and second in the division, while Janice Stroud, skippering for the first time this year, rook low-point skipper honors in Division "B" with a mere 13 points. Kathy Angell crewed for Stroud...

Author: By B. B. K., | Title: Sailors Earn Berth in Nationals | 5/11/1971 | See Source »

...Dean of Radcliffe. How much power will she have to further the interests of women at Harvard? She will be a member of the Faculty and the Council of Deans. "The Dean of Radcliffe," Gilbert said, "is the key to how all this works. The wrong person could rook everything." According to Bunting, "The Radcliffe Dean will have powers I've never had. She will be expected to take an interest in innovative projects for women. I have been working in several areas but without a specific mandate. She won't have to worry about housing and certain other administrative...

Author: By Margaret R. Hornblower, | Title: Merger: Last Poker Game | 3/16/1971 | See Source »

Other cries throughout the evening were. "Free Bobby Seale," "Off the pig," and "Rook and Roll is here to stay." As rioters filtered from the Square to Mt. Auburn St. near Adams House and Claverly Hall, they began chanting. "We want music, give us some music" Claverly opened up with "Street Fighting Man," by the Rolling Stones...

Author: By Peter D. Kramer, | Title: Little Ironies, Bloody Heads | 4/16/1970 | See Source »

...below the surface. But the most adventurous part of these excursions should be the climb to the 250-ft.-to-400-ft.-high lip of Cone Crater, where the astronauts hope to chip away at the car-sized boulders that may be part of the rook flung there from the Sea of Rains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Dawning of Aquarius | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

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