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...Phillipe from his dungeon and train him in courtly manners in preparation for his replacing the king during a masked ball. To proceed further in the plot would be to destroy the only compelling reason for seeing the movie, unless you enjoy spending $5-8 per ticket to see seventeenth-century dress as rendered by Hollywood...

Author: By Carmen J. Iglesias, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: `Mask' Offers Cliched Tale of Vacationing Cast | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

Sandwich is Cape Cod's oldest town and has more charm than its gastronomical name implies. Seventeenth and 18th century houses, as well as an array of antique shops, line the quiet street. Visit the Sandwich Glass Museum and discover examples of Sandwich's trademark craft. Heritage Plantation provides an interesting collection of mini-museums and gardens, and the Sandwich Boardwalk promises a beautiful walk along the sandy dunes. If you're feeling lazy, Old King's Highway (Route 6a) provides a scenic drive through some of the best-preserved New England towns, including Chatham and Yarmouth. Use Sandwich...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New England Towns Provide Quiet Alternative | 3/10/1998 | See Source »

...seems to me that there are other ways of establishing one's authority as a writer then poverty. Some of our great American writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries managed to convince their audiences through their audiences through their strict standards of morality or their rigorous religious beliefs Income aside, these writers, including even the rich Boston brahmins, establish a critical distance by virtue of their beliefs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Literati for Sale | 2/12/1998 | See Source »

...symptoms, as clinical depressives often do, but some were outwardly visible: I stopped going to two classes altogether; I lost 20 pounds over the course of the semester; I rarely ate a meal other than dinner, and then usually a meager dinner, almost always alone. From my seventeenth-floor perch over Cambridge, I spent long nights brooding, trying desperately to fend off deeply suicidal moods that regularly haunted me. The first people to notice were my parents, at Thanksgiving break; it wasn't until I returned home for Christmas and had a series of mother-mandated medical exams that...

Author: By Jeremy R. Jenkins, | Title: Blind Ego | 10/15/1997 | See Source »

...memorial which also anticipates a renewed effort on the part of the College to strengthen the role of women. The gate dedicated Saturday now boasts two plaques, one recognizing the anniversary 25 years ago, when women first moved into the Yard, and the other quoting the seventeenth-century poet, Anne Dudley Bradstreet: "I came into this country, where I found a new world and new manners at which my heart rose...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: 'Fair Harvard' Ever More Fair | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

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