Word: whe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nove, McCullough never fully defined her theme or her goals. We could have accepted her conception of the hospital base as a nondescript, cardboard background against which the characters of Ward X were meant to shine and attract our undivided attention. But in the course of the novel whe provides us with several extraneous alternative story lines. By the end, the novel has become only in part, the story of Honour Langtry, a 30-year-old nurse who has devoted her life to duty--"the indecent obsession." Langtry's sense of duty finally eclipses the sketchy tidbits of psychological interplay...
...paper whe wrote on her symbolic analysis of a Mayan myth--the polpovuh--won the Bowdoin Prize this year...
...when this Harvard Ph. D met with the press in 1971--two days after her husband was formally selected by the Corporation and the Board of Overseers as President of the University--whe was not asked about her academic career. Instead, the "women of the press" who had been invited to 33 Elmwood Ave. wanted to know what Sissela Bok thought about the mini-skirt...
...matter what she does, Greis attacks. Freshman and sophomore years, she was an integral part of the women's varsity basketball team. But after two sparkling seasons, she found the game she had played since fifth grade too time-consuming, and felt whe was simply "doing it out of habit." So she took up squash, worked as a teaching fellow for an applied math course, and concentrated on golf. "You have to question what you do once in a while. You don't really grow that much unless you try new things," she says, but adds that she does miss...