Word: warner
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Levin was seeded number one in both singles and doubles. In doubles, however, he and Rocky Jarvis were rudely bumped out of the tournament 6-4, 6-3, by Rick Steketee and Jeff Warner, Amherst's top tandem. Levin and Jarvis had swamped the same Amherst team in a dual match earlier this season. Steketee and Warner eventually won the doubles championship to give Amherst a one point team victory over Harvard...
...WHITE, by Sylvia Townsend Warner. A compassionate biography of the tormented English author who re-created the legend of King Arthur in a new form part magic and farce, part fairy tale and epic...
...WHITE by Sylvia Townsend Warner. 352 pages. Viking...
...cycle, The Once and Future King, is a shade too piteous to be in character. The Sword in the Stone comes so near to being a perfect book that the momentary faltering in Merlyn's tone is worth examining. In her compassionate biography of White, Author Sylvia Townsend Warner suggests that it was White himself who missed his love, who lay at night listening to the roar of his veins, and who swallowed great draughts of learning as a painkiller...
Gentlemanly Idling. At Cambridge in the '20s, a pose of homosexuality was acceptable and even fashionable, but for Tim White the matter was too serious for posing. Biographer Warner maintains an apparently deliberate reticence on the subject, but as clearly as the reader can determine from her patchy discussion, White was never able to accept homosexuality wholeheartedly. Nor could he really reject it. His solution was solitude, and his cure for solitude was Merlyn's: learning things and teaching...