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KINGDOMS OF ELFIN by SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER 222 pages. Viking...
...Puck and Ariel. The rest of the century was no kinder. Thanks to Peter Pan's continuing popularity and Disneyfication, Tinker Bell & Co. were ultimately reduced to trademarks or synonyms for homosexuals. The supernatural was obviously not long for this world. Until now. In Kingdoms of Elfin, Author Sylvia Townsend Warner, 83, never condescends to an ethereal race that views mortals as "unfailingly serious and unfailingly absurd." Instead, she talks about fairies without being fey and creates a texture for the intangible...
...MESD hearing also brought out the possibility that Harvard used the new policy to punish Sylvia Gallagher, a shop steward in Eliot House, for union-related activities. Last spring, Gallagher led a noon-time walkout of members of Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Employees Union for an emergency union meeting. When the University slapped Gallagher with a five-day suspension and docked her two hours pay, she filed a grievance against Harvard with the National Labor Relations Board. Several weeks later, Harvard offered Gallagher only a part-time summer job, that Gallagher's legal agent says could...
...Sylvia Gallagher, union shop steward in the Eliot House dining hall and one of the workers who has complained to the MESD, said yesterday that she refused a part-time job the University offered her because it would have involved working during the weekend and during mornings, when she would have had difficulty finding a baby-sitter...
Each of the chief characters has a gallant last-ditch tenacity that is the mark of Williams' people. T. Lawrence Shannon (Richard Chamberlain) is a defrocked minister with a penchant for teen-age girls. The hotel proprietor, Maxine Faulk (Sylvia Miles), fancies young Mexican beachboys. The guardians of the spirit as opposed to the flesh are Hannah Jelkes (Dorothy McGuire), a Nantucket spinster, and her ancient 97-year-old poet grandfather Nonno (William Roerick), on whom Hannah's abiding love and care are centered...