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...revealing that most American women fear success. The daughter of Greek immigrants, raised in Boston's mixed ethnic section of Roxbury, Horner attended Boston Girls' Latin School and Bryn Mawr College. One of her tasks is presiding over the integration of Radcliffe and Harvard under one university umbrella on a trial basis. Her major concern: helping women and minority groups achieve equal access to education and jobs...
...night before Christmas, in a cramped suburban house in Dublin. The husband, Martin, stands downstairs in the hall, listening to his wife Delia putting their two small girls to bed. Between husband and wife are the stairs and the dark length of the hall, containing a coatrack, an umbrella stand and a chair. "Nobody ever sat on the chair and nobody ever stood long in the hall," Brennan writes. "It was a passageway-not to fame, and not to fortune, but only to the common practices of family life, those practices, habits and ordinary customs that are the only true...
...funny. Figaro enters not from the wings but from-the audience, beginning the Largo al factotum at about row S. In the lesson scene Rosina hits a high C and the glass in Bartolo's hand shatters. During the Act II storm, Bartolo's hat and umbrella are swept skyward by the wind (on a wire, of course...
...turns out this kind of political manipulation can work in Massachusetts. Indeed it is working quite effectively right here in Cambridge under the umbrella of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library effort. The idea, it seems, is to divide the Cambridge community and subsequently squelch any opposition to the Library Corporation's controversial plans...
AVERY'S SUBJECTS manifest this energy because he forms them with lines that breathe and kick and cry with the force of a newborn child. In his drypoint "Umbrella by the Sea" (1948), he expresses the size and movement of an ocean by the spacing and fluidity of the line alone. In the foreground he makes his lines wide and gently curving, like lapping waves, gradually becoming choppier as he moves out to sea. Then lines become crowded, quick slashes of his stylus. In the same way, in his three reclining nudes (1939, 1941 and 1948), the surety...