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...slave trader under the protection of the King of Dahomey. Chatwin began his research nine years ago in Dahomey and returned in 1977 to find the country named the People's Republic of Benin. "The fetish priests of Ouidah," he notes, "had put pictures of Lenin amid the scarlet paraphernalia of the Thunder Pantheon...
...striped-pants morning suit for him. No Priscilla of Boston gown for her. No Rose Garden reception for either of them. Just a short hop to Manhattan's supreme court for a civil ceremony, he in jeans and red sweatshirt, she in scarlet cowboy boots, black sweater and slacks. Then it was back to the barre for Ronald P. Reagan, 22, a Joffrey II dancer, who has been rooming for more than a year with Doria Palmieri, 29, a California-born literary researcher. The impromptu wedding, attended by one friend and a Secret Service agent, "seemed like the right...
...Scarlet Letter, Mellow maintains, there is "something awesome about the manner in which Hawthorne fuses art and human sinfulness." Mellow even suggests, in an absurd simplification of Hawthorne's complex understanding of sin, that the sense of evil which pervades The Scarlet Letter resulted from Hawthorne's bitterness after failing to retain his appointment in the Salem Custom House. Mellow's analysis of The Blithedale Romance is similarly superficial, and makes the mistake of crediting Hawthorne with remarks that are made by his narrator. At the end of his discussion of Hawthorne's novels, Mellow concludes, somewhat simplistically, that "there...
...added to the film version of Tea and Sympathy so the kind schoolmaster's wife (Deborah Kerr), who helped the troubled schoolboy learn about love, could allude to the guilt she felt afterward. Not till 1953 did a major studio make a profit on a movie with the scarlet letter C: that film was Otto Preminger's saucy The Moon Is Blue...
RUTGERS 35, CORNELL 12: After clobbering Princeton last Saturday, the Scarlet Knights get to fatten up on the Ivy League again today. The Big Red is this week's victim...