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...Love, he achieves the impossible. He reduces the pathos of Lawrence last years, spent in exile and pain, to a cheap thrill. Lawrence and Freida leave England soon after the British censor. Herbert G. Muskett (John Gielgud) publicly burns available copies of The Rainbow by court order. They sail to American to seek refuge and patronage from Mabel Dodge Luhan (Ava Gardner), a wealthy rancher in New Mexico. At a party given by Mabel on her vast ranch. Miles reveals his perception of Lawrence's character: Incensed by the Indians performing their sacred dances for the pleasure of the company...

Author: By Laura K. Jereski, | Title: Crying in the Night | 10/30/1981 | See Source »

...first year of the Revolution, he tries in vain to persuade the government to ally itself with France. Declared an outlaw, he snatches the Tricolor and rides toward the coast, chased by troops through the Corsican countryside. He clambers aboard a small boat with no oars and no sail; hoisting the Tricolor, he sets sail for France...

Author: By Laura K. Jereski, | Title: Liberty and Tyranny | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

...Captain's Cup Regatta at Tufts, the New England Women's Team Racing Championship and the President' Trophy. The team also competed in the Intersectional Regatta at Yale in the beginning of October and took fourth place because, as Horne avers, "Yale is a very strange place to sail. It's also exceedingly difficult to win every single regatta in a season...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Women Sailors Conclude Successful Fall Season | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

Both Horne and Sebok are optimistic about the team's chances of attending the championship, which Radcliffe won nine times in the first ten years of its existence. "It looks really good for us," the team captain says, and Horne adds rosily, "If they sail next spring the way they did this fall, then Harvard will be unbeatable...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Women Sailors Conclude Successful Fall Season | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

...crew got together a couple of years ago to outfit a boat which one of them had bought, and bow-man David Higgins '69 is still on his 96-foot schooner, sailing somewhere off the coast of Puerto Rico. "My wife and I plan to sail through the Panama Canal, across the South Pacific to Australia, and eventually around the world," Higgings reported last week over a static-filled ship-to-shore radio frequency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Olympic Eight | 10/17/1981 | See Source »

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