Word: wolfe
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...response, the education committee of the state legislature approved a bill to counter the referendum said Rep. Alice K. Wolf (D-Cambridge...
...include Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen ’81-’82, Assistant Professor of English and American Literature Lynn Festa, Professor of Chinese Literature Wai-yee Li, Assistant Professor of the History of Art and Architecture Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Assistant Professor of Music Richard Wolf and Fiona Doetsch, a junior fellow in the Society of Fellows...
...been 12 years since her last novel, but in The Shelters of Stone (Crown; 753 pages) little has changed. Auel's heroine, the plucky orphan Ayla, is still making her way in the spear-throwing, wolf-taming, sexually liberated Cro-Magnon era. Shelters is Auel's Paleolithic answer to Meet the Parents: Ayla's studly paramour Jondalar takes her home to his tribe, which lives on the site of the famous Lascaux cave paintings. Tension ensues--they had bitchy ex-girlfriends back then too--along with the occasional steamy sex scene and a short course in such lost arts...
...English crossword-puzzle addicts, math geeks, even the odd minor poet or two, whose supersecret work on German codes probably shortened the war by months if not years. Their greatest success was in cracking Enigma, the machine-generated numerical language by which the Germans communicated with the submarine wolf packs that preyed on the Atlantic shipping routes vital to Britain's survival...
...charm. Always, front and center (first desk, middle aisle, the Democratic leader's spot) stood Lyndon Johnson, almost handsome then, in his 40s, leaner than history remembers him, narrow-eyed, his hair sleek with Stacomb, alert in a vaguely dangerous way--an impresario, a genius of nuances, a wolf in his prime...