Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe is likely to prove difficult reading for women who actually go here, if they get through Baker's rather academic style and the unwieldy plethora of facts about all the other colleges. She forces you to confront the fact that you came to Cambridge because of Harvard's great tradition of learning, but that, at the same time, that very traditional outlook has kept Harvard from responding to women's educational needs, with Radcliffe's administration just about powerless to fight for its students. Her statistics are not quite up to date--her research apparently ended...
...very few outside the Greek community, but a resurgent interest in the poet during recent years has generated several translations of his work. Very recently, two English-speaking scholars have contributed significantly to our knowledge of Cavafy with complementary works which differ vastly in approach, subject matter and style, but give the English-speaking world a full-length portrait of Cavafy and his work for the first time. Robert Liddell's Cavafy: a Biography sorts out the ambiguities of the poet's life; Edmund Keeley, who praised Liddell's work as "the most authoritative and comprehensive biography of the poet...
Later that afternoon the five kilometer cross-country race moved Radcliffe into second place by a single point. Though only two of the women had ever raced competitively before, both came through in fine style. Eleanor Apthorp breezed to second place, and Judy Rabinowitz, who skied at the Junior Nationals last year, finished fourth...
CARDIN raised hemlines and eyebrows with his short "nymphette line" -which Le Figaro termed "adorable" and L'Aurore dismissed as "a style for perennial Lolitas." Less noticed were Cardin's romantically tailored capes, blouses and suit jackets, some with sleeves cut so wide that they afforded tantalizing glimpses of the bosom each time the wearer gestured, or breastured...
...Tomlin, her impersonation of the kind of West Coast lady who has every style of salvation that has been introduced in the past decade hanging in her mental closet is just about perfect...