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...husbands), thinly disguised, into her fiction--a matter, she said, of baking real plums into an imaginary cake. Her unusual compulsion to tell the truth could also be an instrument of vicious distortion. The technique proved lucrative with The Group, her best-selling 1963 novel of her classmates at Vassar and their subsequent lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Portrait of a Dark Lady | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...Martin Kelly Minter, is a white middle-class son of hippie schoolteachers who finds himself increasingly troubled by the socioeconomic inequality that he sees all around him. He also happens to be a kleptomaniac. Kelly's crusade to redistribute the world's wealth begins when he drops out of Vassar, moves into an illegal sublet in Spanish Harlem and takes a job with the Miracle Moving company, which specializes in relocating rich clients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Model Thief | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

MOST FORCE-FUL James Earl Jones (5), the voice of Darth Vader, at Vassar College: "I offer you one piece of advice on this most auspicious and joyful occasion: May the Force be with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Finally, in Closing | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

With the exception of Vassar, they had all remained single-sex as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Sisters? | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

...Vassar's Board of Trustees rejected an offer by Yale University to move the school from Poughkeepsie, N.Y. and merge with the New Haven institution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Sisters? | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

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