Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston College's Brenda Schafer, the number two seed and tournament champion, eliminated top Radcliffe singles player Lissa Muscatine in the quarterfinals, 6-0, 7-5. Brandeis's number one seed, Polly Hannes, eliminated Denise Thal in the semis...
...uncharted waters far from the Mediterranean island of Pianosa, the setting for his World War II novel. His voyage in Something Happened takes him through the psyche of one man, Robert Slocum. And like Ulysses, sleeping under a pile of leaves, like an ember buried beneath ashes, a small seed of light from his previous work has survived. The bright, animated fires of Catch-22 have died down, but now a new fire has sprung from its still-hot coals, burning a blue flame of discontent and throwing dissonant shadows...
...adjustments curdled my stomach and made me yearn for the complacency of the West coast. We endlessly talked about Harvard's malignant llness and worried that we were especially susceptible to infection of the Harvard germ since we were already suffering from a mild case of Sophomore Slump. The seed of the well-known germ--ambition--could easily generate into a sick and competitive need to achieve, produce, and be known. We were depressed, felt oppressed by the confines of the "world's greatest university", and wanted to avoid becoming diseased at all costs...
...TAMARIND SEED Directed and Written by BLAKE EDWARDS...
There is more exposition than dramatization of an exceedingly complicated plot thereafter. Yet if Sharif could have managed a modicum of magnetism and if Andrews had finally furled that old umbrella of hers, The Tamarind Seed might have been a moving exploration of the nasty intersection where politics and personal desires meet...