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Michael G. Colantuono '83, formerly of Quincy House, was secretary of the Gay Students Association at Harvard and became the first head of the University's new student government after he helped write its charter...
...Significant Sisters: The Grassroots of Active Feminian, 1839-1939 is an important contribution to this endeavor. Forster chronicles the lives and accomplishments of eight women, each of whom helped bring about a significant change in the status of British or American women. Forster begins by disclaiming any intent to write a comprehensive history of the beginnings of the feminist movement. Instead, she has chosen to write about the women whose struggles have affected her directly: "In many ways, I myself am the product of everything the eight women in this book fought for--much more so than the average women...
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...also the fulfillment of an old dream. Clancy had longed to write a thriller ever since he majored in English at Loyola College in his native Baltimore. Severe myopia kept him from serving in the Viet Nam War, and the need to earn a living made him put his literary ambitions aside for the insurance business. The writing urge resurfaced in 1976 when Clancy read about a mutiny aboard the Soviet frigate Storozhevoy. The ship's political officer and a group of enlisted men had attempted to defect to Sweden, and most of them had been killed. "That mutiny rattled...
...Mink (1960); she also played the deranged hero's mother in Morgan! (1966), in which she made a dottily poignant pilgrimage to the London grave of Karl Marx. In addition to these and other movie roles, plus extensive work in the theater and television, Handl found the time to write a novel. The Sioux was first published in 1965 and elicited glowing responses from the likes of Noel Coward and Daphne du Maurier. After initial flurries of praise, though, the book sank out of print. Now publishers on both sides of the Atlantic have decided to give it another chance...