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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charles meets Sarah Woodruff, a dark, intense governess who has been ostracized by the town for having a flagrant, fleeting affair with a French naval lieutenant. For Fowles, the unrepentant Sarah embodies the qualities that Victorian society tended to repress-passion and imagination. In the forbidden love that grows between her and Charles. Fowles foreshadows the undermining of an entire epoch. In Sarah's eventual rejection of Charles, to take up a bohemian existence in the house of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Fowles projects the first glimmer of a new and freer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Imminent Victorians | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...astrology and more or less related arts. Seeress Sybil Leek's Diary of a Witch is already in its second printing, though her alleged witchcraft seems mainly a device to distinguish her from such colleagues in the prophecy business as the redoubtable Jeane Dixon and British Seer Maurice Woodruff, who does his predicting on a syndicated TV show hosted by Robert Q. Lewis. To lend a little magic to public entertainments, Los Angeles enjoys the services of an official County Witch?a title conferred by the County Supervisor on Mrs. Louise Huebner, a thirtyish "third-generation astrologer and sixth-generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Astrology: Fad and Phenomenon | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...FRIEND TONY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). James Whitmore is a scientific crime fighter, and John Woodruff and Enzo Cerusico are his legmen in the premiere of this new mystery comedy series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 3, 1969 | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...white-haired, grandmotherly woman paraded around the hall in an ante-bellum dress of red, white and blue. In one hand she held the Stars and Stripes, in the other the Stars and Bars. She was greeted with cheers. There is even a George Wallace Waltz (copyright by Lyle Woodruff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: WALLACE'S ARMY: THE COALITION OF FRUSTRATION | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

Married. Dr. Timothy Leary, 47, high priest of LSD; and Rosemary Woodruff, 33, his assistant; he for the second time; near Joshua Tree, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 8, 1967 | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

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