Word: heather
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Equus takes place in the present in Rokeby Psychiatric Hospital in Southern Egland. The child psychiatrist, Martin Dysart (Brian Bedford) is asked by the local magistrate, Heather Salomon (Sheila Smith) to take on an unusual case: a disturbed young man who was brought to her court for commiting a crime less horrible in its consequences than in its explanation, a crime that is in one sense an unspeakable mystery. Alan Strang (Dai Bradley), the boy, arrives at the hospital in a state of extreme catatonia, singing advertising jingles or watching television during the day and living in a world...
...bands. Many jazz connoisseurs also consider it the best. In nine years of one-night stands since its founding by Trumpeter Jones and Drummer Lewis, J. & L. has perfected a loose, flexible sound. The title refers to the multiracial, three-generation profile of the personnel - Trombonist Cliff Heather is 70, Trumpeter Jon Faddis is 21 - as well as to the program...
...large American corporations revealed in 1972 that men outnumbered women at the top board-member and officer levels by a staggering 600 to 1. Less than 10% of the full professors on all U.S. campuses are women. "There are spotty examples of emerging women leaders," sums up Heather Booth, a civil rights activist from Illinois, "but it is not clear whether they are the tip of the iceberg...
...response to the request has been "quite gratifying," Heather Cole, a Widener librarian, said yesterday, adding that the library now has many duplicate issues that it will give to nearby libraries that need them...
...softens with memories of the good old days. He can sentimentalize at length about bar-hopping with Hemingway and Thurber, and pay tribute to Tim Costello, the late keeper of a Manhattan literary saloon, this way: "Without himself, who has been in the ground and as one with the heather on the heath these many unstylish years, Tim's was never again as it was when he was there softly singing John Anderson, My Jo or discussing the Dublin of Joyce...