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...SYLVIA PLATH...
...finished you are so much involved in the next book really—because the production of the book takes a bit of time. So you’re already in your next book. I was already in the midst of a book about Robert Lowell, [Anne] Sexton, and [Sylvia] Plath. THC: How was it to be Robert Lowell’s protégé and work with Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath? KS: I came to Boston on this wonderful fellowship to study with [Robert Lowell] and he didn’t know what to do with...
...Sylvia Mendenhall is Teacher Emerita at Concord Academy. She was President Faust’s English teacher and advisor in junior year at that institution...
...sand sliding away in the receding surf. So in the end, there's no center to take things in and process them and view the world. That was the first kind of scary, weird thing. Even more alarming, when I was 16 or 17, I suddenly, having just read Sylvia Plath and identifying with her, got up in the middle of the day [at school] and started walking home several miles away, something I'd never done before. I was a good girl - I never skipped school. And as I was walking, the houses got very ominous and foreboding...
...sensing that Californians were being ripped off by their utility companies, Sylvia Siegel, an outspoken, acerbic mother of two, taught herself the arcane details of utility law, launched a network to represent consumers before the California Public Utilities Commission and became the most visible and powerful utility consumer advocate in the country. Her expertise and occasional name-calling helped quash a plan to impose a "customer charge" even if no electricity was used during a given month, helped expose $345 million in overcharges by Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric, and was instrumental in creating affordable "lifeline" rates...