Word: vassar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tish was sent east to Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn. She went to Vassar at 16, graduating at 19 with a B.A. in psychology. After a year at the University of Geneva, Tish decided she wanted to work in Europe. She displayed even then her persistent ability to stand back, set goals and methodically fulfill them. The State Department said she would need secretarial skills even to apply for a job overseas; she knocked off a year-long secretarial curriculum in eight weeks...
...that one might imagine. When the Juilliard was playing once at Darmstadt, Germany, a contemporary music center, the crowd found the Elliott Carter quartet so passe that they talked and jeered throughout. Robert Mann retaliated by playing with his back to the crowd. When the Concord was playing at Vassar in 1972, the group had to stop twice in a lengthy George Rochberg quartet to replace broken strings. As he turned the last page, Violinist Sokol breathed a sigh of relief?and his music fluttered to the floor. When Cellist Norman Fischer bent down to retrieve it, he knocked over...
Martha Roberts, the netwomen's singles ace, came back to grab the consolation blue ribbon after dropping a disappointing contest to Greta Frei of Vassar, 2-2. In the finals, Robert defeated Barnard's Ann D'Adesky, a recent transfer from Florida...
...greatest affection is reserved for his title character, Erica (Jill Clayburgh), a Vassar-educated 37-year-old who suddenly loses her seemingly devoted husband of 16 years (Michael Murphy) to a younger woman. For the first time, Erica is without a man, and she must learn how to adjust. Eventually she does, but not without the help of a therapist and a new lover, an artist played by Alan Bates. By the end, Erica has arrived at a state of hard-won feminist bliss...
...Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., had been hit by an earlier outbreak but this was not publicized. Before the end of January, 200 to 300 cadets were reporting to sick call daily at West Point. That epidemic has passed its peak but has spread across the Hudson to Vassar. Says Dr. Rita Jaeger, health director of the predominantly female college near Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: "Students here go out with men from West Point. Flu is now going across our campus. We've had 600 to 700 come into the clinic, and there are probably as many sitting in their...