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Barbara Pym was the Cinderella of the previous literary decade. Having achieved a minor reputation in England during the '50s, she could not find a publisher in the '60s when London took to swinging. All that changed in 1977, three years before her death, when the Times Literary Supplement ran a feature on neglected writers. Philip Larkin and David Cecil, both authors of mighty clout, independently singled out Pym. Overnight, it seemed, her books were not only available but on the best-seller lists, and she had the kind of loyal following that usually requires years to build...
...some degree, the revelations in West Germany complemented the stories provided by new witnesses in Brazil. In her attractive white house in the affluent hillside community of Petropolis Park, outside Sao Paulo, a nervous Gitta Stammer, who had earlier come forward to support and supplement the Bossert account, told her story to TIME's Jacqueline Reditt. Her face pale and worried, her hands trembling, the slight, 65-year-old Hungarian-born woman described how she and her family had kept a longtime lodger's secret for 22 anxious years...
...this sense, the book serves as a supplement to recent historical research. Poet's present some of the most sensitive perceptions of their world, and Lonsdale shows us that eighteenth century life was not simply about sprawling manors, doddering curates, fox hunting and professional male poets, but also about the horrors, and joys, of opium, chimney sweeping, marriage, bread riots, the difficulty of being a woman in a man's world, soldiering, and even the laundry. The book helps us to a broader understanding of the time...
...students in all the others. Elsewhere, universities have launched even more ambitious ventures. Stanford offers engineering courses by closed-circuit TV so that employees in high-tech companies throughout Silicon Valley can attend class without leaving their place of work. The University of Washington gives televised courses to supplement the education of medical students in places as distant as Alaska, Idaho and Montana...
...person's attention. It doesn't matter how. The ad can be distasteful, like Burger King Kiddies' "na na na na na" jingle about their victory in some taste-test, or fantastic and sex filled, like the Edge ad. Remember that this ad appeared in a Newsweek supplement distributed solely to college students. It was targeted for you and it worked...