Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LETTERS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, VOLUME...
...highly touted U Mass quintet squares off with the University of West Virginia Mountaneers later in the evening...
...Treasury Secretary William Simon has put his Virginia estate up for sale and will return to his home in New Jersey and pick up his career on Wall Street, possibly at his old firm, Salomon Brothers, where he was senior partner for eight years. At 48, Simon has ample time to test the political waters for a possible run for Governor in the Garden State...
...promotion manager for Foreign Affairs magazine when the eleventh publisher he tried agreed to print Mame, the zany tale of a rich young orphan and his eccentric aunt. It later became a play, a film and a Broadway musical. Tanner wrote twelve novels as Patrick Dennis and four as Virginia Rowans. "Writing isn't hard," he once said. "No harder than ditch digging...
Hough moves with an essayist's grace from lemonade to his dislike of meetings, from Virginia Woolf to George Borrow. He is never sentimental, but he does not give up on old affections either. He is master of the splendidly abrupt transition: "In December 1971 I threw out all my city shirts, hoarded since 1926." Or: "Today Graham ate a whole banana." Or, with drastic irony: "Someone is sure to mention sex." Perhaps predictably Hough has it in for Sigmund Freud because he feels that the good doctor unwittingly damaged the possibilities of romance and encouraged the adoption...