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Calm Down Mother and Comings and Goings by Megan Terry, and dramatic readings from the poetry of the late Anne Sexton, presents some of the work of two talented, intriguing contemporary woman writers. Not all the writing is feminist. Most of it's quite good. At the Ex tonight, tomorrow and Saturday...
Died. Anne Sexton, 45, suburban housewife who turned to poetry during a nervous breakdown 18 years ago and proceeded to write seven books of searingly personal verse, including the Pulitzer-prizewinning Live or Die (1966); apparently by her own hand (carbon-monoxide inhalation); in Weston, Mass. Clearly intrigued in her poems by the thought of her own death, Sexton survived a number of suicide attempts. After the 1963 suicide of Fellow Poet Sylvia Plath, Sexton recalled discussions the two had had in the late 1950s: "We talked about death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawing to it like...
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...news is that there's no big news. Yale not only lost to Harvard on the Charles Saturday but failed to mark the occasion of the first Sexton Cup race away from New London with a respectable showing...
...last time Yale won the Sexton Cup was 1962. Harry Parker became varsity coach in the middle of the season. The Crimson downed Yale in New London in a huge upset and has never lost since...