Word: unicorns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...UNICORN GIRL, by Caroline Glyn The 19-year-old novelist, a great-granddaughter of English Novelist Elinor Glyn, takes the reader on a hilarious guided tour of a Girl Guide summer camp, where chaos reigns unrestrained and girlish tears flow often...
...UNICORN GIRL, by Caroline Glyn. A 19-year-old novelist takes a fresh look at the passions and perils of early adolescence in a properly upsetting setting: a chaotic Girl Guide summer camp...
...UNICORN GIRL by Caroline Glyn. 192 pages. Coward-McCann...
...mercy of a savage sisterhood of judges -those" of her peers who have learned the power of group opinion and the perils of deviating from its cast-iron conventions. Whenever camp life becomes unbearable, she loses herself during a stalk and pretends that she is accompanied by a friendly unicorn, the traditional symbol of virginity. By the end of camp, she has found and kept a friend, but she still has need of her imaginary pal. "Just remember," she says to a teacher who intrudes on her illusions, "I am a virgin, the right kind of virgin...
Visible only through powerful tele scopes, the star R Monocerotis glows faintly in the constellation of Unicorn. For years it has been considered a puzzling "dwarf" that lived in the Milky Way; astronomers could not explain either its dimness or its complex spectrum. Now, as they have long suspected, they have learned that there is much more to the obscure star than meets the eye. In an article in Nature, Astrophysicist Frank Low, 33, and Rice University Graduate Student Bruce Smith, 23, report that R Monocerotis (R designates the star; Monocerotis is Latin for uni corn) may well...