Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...since-and they have eleven children to support. John McFerren, 35, could buy neither groceries nor gasoline for his small country store and filling station. Allen Yancy Jr., 25, a chemistry and mathematics teacher, was dismissed by the school board. He plans to go off to college again this fall, return to Fayette County with a master's degree. "If they won't hire me as a teacher, I'll get another job or farm my Daddy's farm. But I'm not going to move away...
When the U.S.S. John S. McCain slipped into Southeast Asian waters last fall, she began a cruise that any peacetime sailor might envy. The Seventh Fleet destroyer leader called at Cebu, Singapore, Rangoon, Calcutta, Hong Kong and Okinawa. In Rangoon 15,000 Burmese streamed aboard her. In Calcutta she hus tled food and medicine to a city ravaged by flood and cholera. Off Formosa, she plucked 41 seamen from a sinking Japanese freighter. But last week, back at Pearl Harbor, came the biggest thrill of all: the arrival of a penniless Okinawan, bound for the University of Hawaii with...
...similar fashion, though taking her at a much tenderer age, in Caesar and Cleopatra. Shakespeare did not present us here with an exalted love: Cleopatra is a nymphomaniac; and sex is, for Antony, just an animalistic gratification. Neither of the lovers is a noble person who experiences a tragic "fall" or deterioration. And we do not undergo a catharsis through "pity and fear" by witnessing their death. Nowhere in the play is death regarded as something terrible; we are not sad when Cleopatra takes her life, but rather rejoice in this final triumph she wreaks over Octavius. Both the lovers...
Starting this fall, the streets among the Houses will become "private roads," closed to all student automobiles. By an 8-1 vote on Monday, the Cambridge City Council approved a Traffic Board recommendation closing portions of Dunster, Holyoke, Mill, and South Streets and Riverview Avenue. For the next few years, the University will chain off the streets, allowing only fire apparatus, delivery trucks, and other necessary transportation...
Houghton has published poetry and prose in Atlantic Monthly, Saturday Review and other magazines. This winter a play by Mr. Houghton will be produced at the Loeb Drama Center; his work is to appear in an anthology published by Random House this fall. Miss Whitman is the Editor of the Wertheim Committee, which publishes books about Labor relations. Her poetry has appeared widely and has been recorded in part for the Harvard Vocarium Library...