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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...most raffish and fantastic crew that I have met yet and even I-excessively broadminded as I am-feel somewhat shocked by the goings-on." That was how Tennessee Williams described his Provincetown acquaintances in a letter to his friend, Novelist Donald Windham, in the summer of 1940. Now the playwright has returned to that scene. But somehow that raffish and fantastic crew has fled his memory, and the characters on the stage of Manhattan's Jean Cocteau Repertory would not shock a novitiate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Summer of 1940 | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...easel-type stand; the wind blows it down; tiny gold footballs are scratched, buttons chip, pennants wrinkle and smudge. I get a commission: 10% of what I sell." In the fall of 1967 the family moved to Putney, where the young father took a post teaching English at Windham College, which is now defunct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life into Art: Novelist John Irving | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

Fitzsimmons said many of the country's four-year colleges are "on the brink of closing." He cited the recent shutdowns at Windham College in New Hampshire and Annhurst College in Massachusetts as evidence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Admission Is Easier, But Harvard Still 'Selective' | 1/8/1981 | See Source »

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