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...straight in the slack-jawed smoke-blue air/ Two minutes, five minutes, seven minutes,/ While everybody wondered what it meant/ To toast the lady with her own body/ Or to hold her to the light like a plucked flower." Yet nothing-not her hectic love life, or a screenwriting stint in Hollywood at the end of World War II, or a subcareer as visiting professor at Stanford-quite explains the paucity of her output (one novel and fewer than 30 stories). All her life Katherine Anne fought a mysterious writer's block. Jailed for protesting the execution of Sacco...
...Bradley said that he spent some more time around Harvard after his collegiate career. When on the Knicks after a two-year stint as a Rhodes Scholar, Bradley sometimes visited the Coop on trips to Boston to play the Celtics...
Following his Ph.D. Hoffman received a string of fellowships that began with more gamma ray research at the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and eventually led to a three-year stint with a prestigious astronomical organization in England, where he met his wife, Barbara...
...THIS WEEK, when President Reagan and his political advisors carefully scrutinize the state by state results form today's midterm elections, one race they are likely to ignore is the senatorial contest in Connecticut between Republican incumbent Lowell Weicker and Democratic Rep. Toby Moffett, Weicker, fighting for his third stint in Washington, is considered too liberal to serve as an accurate barometer for the President's policies...
...class line fated to perform the world's crummiest jobs. "I would take my place behind the horses . . . I'm into traffic," says one laborer shyly. Before settling down to shovel manure, George I takes a wrong turn on his way to the Crusades and does a stint in a Slavic salt mine. The following Georges are doomed to play follow the leader through the centuries, picking up the trash of kings and sultans, knights and janissaries. The last George graduates from shoving around middle-class furniture; now he repossesses the tables and chairs of ghetto blacks...