Word: virginia
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...opening faculty meeting in the fall of 1960, the Concord Academy teachers were alerted to the arrival of a new freshman boarder from a small town in Virginia. She was only 12 years old, about to be 13. It seemed likely that she would be homesick, unsure of herself, slow to make friends. Drew Gilpin—known in high school simply as Drewdie—was none of those things...
...victory. In the next round, Kumar and Ermakov lost to a very strong team from Mississippi, 8-4. That duo, Erling Tveit and Jonas Berg, who are ranked No. 20 , made it to the tournament’s championship match before losing to the top-ranked squad from Virginia. Kumar and Ermakov’s ability to prevail over some of the country’s strongest doubles pairs bodes well for their prospects at the top of Harvard’s doubles rotation for the remainder of the year. —JONATHAN B. STEINMAN
...reunion concert of Van Halen has you feeling like you've stepped into a time warp... Where have you been all summer? There was Don Dokken wailing "Unchain the Night" to hundreds of wild fans in Springfield, Virginia, as razor-sharp, screaming guitar chords pierced the darkness. A few weeks after, in the same venue, Ratt lead singer Stephen Pearcy stretched a mike over the crowd and sang "Round and Round" as bodies slammed together and fists pounded the air. In Thorpe, Pennsylvania, Warrant's Jani Lane was in concert, singing the band's classic '80s metal ballad "Heaven...
...anecdotes told within the framework of three famous women’s literary works: Christine de Pizan’s “Book of the City of Ladies,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s “Eighty Years and More,” and Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own” serve as primary examples of literature that have brought previously overlooked types women to the forefront. What makes Ulrich’s book insightful as well as worthwhile are the details she provides...
...also have to do with reading against the grain.A PRESENT CONSTRUCTIONWhile Ulrich’s book encompasses everyone from Amazons to abolitionists, it returns again and again to the texts of three prominent writers in women’s history—Christine de Pizan, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Virginia Woolf—to drive home her view that history is a dialogue between present and past.“As I like to tell my students, history is not the moldy old facts. We create history out of the sources that survive from the past...