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...only pleasant thing to surface from Britain's drought: in a Welsh valley that had been turned into a reservoir years ago, the stone cottage where Percy Bysshe Shelley romped with his young bride Harriet Westbrook and wrote his first great poetry was exposed to view again as the waters dropped...
...pamphleteer promptly ran off with 16-year-old Harriet Westbrook, daughter of a London tavernkeeper. With Harriet came an older sister, eager to protect this new family tie with the aristocracy, plus Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Shelley's best friend at Oxford. The odd ménage was shattered several years later when Shelley met Mary Godwin, daughter of the genteel radical, William Godwin. He eloped with her-and her stepsister, Claire Clairmont-generously inviting Harriet to join them as a "spiritual" sister. She refused. Shelley and his new entourage set out on years of restless travel, ending with...
...When I watch TV now," says Hugh Saunders, president of a dowel-making firm in Westbrook, Me., "I feel angry to think that this country took so long to realize that it was destroying itself and the Vietnamese by being there." Complains Lawrence Sullivan, an official of the Greater Boston Labor Council: "I hear Schlesinger and Kissinger, and I say, 'Hey, you're not speaking...
...Swinging Marriage. Marriage and sex counselors believe that open marriage-an agreement to allow outside affairs-may still have a future, but the naive optimism is gone. Many counselors report severe and often unexpected problems of jealousy ("something whose power we all underestimated," writes Novelist Robert Westbrook, whose open marriage broke up). In their new book, Shifting Gears, Nena and George O'Neill, co-authors of the sunny bestseller Open Marriage, say (somewhat obscurely) they are recommending "change and growth" and "not a swinging marriage...
...Though not a radical, he enjoyed the endorsement of black and white community organizers alike. Indeed, the behavior of the SLA in killing Foster and kidnaping Hearst led at least one black spokesman in California to question whether the SLA was not simply exploiting DeFreeze as a figurehead. Colston Westbrook, a Berkeley linguistics instructor who met DeFreeze through the Vacaville Black Culture Association, said in April, "I think the honkies are calling the shots. [DeFreeze had] better wake...