Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poetry in 20th-century America. The poetry reading itself has a venerable tradition--in the Woodberry Poetry Room, one can listen to a virtual roll-call of American poets reading at Harvard, from T.S. Eliot '10 to Robert Lowell and beyond. But, at some point, perhaps in the 1960s, the act of reading one's poems aloud to an audience--one of the main ways poetry is consumed today, and a source of income for virtually every poet--clearly started to affect the way poems themselves are written...
...shameful." That it is. But Kemp's stance could cost him dearly in the 2000 primaries, where the increasingly conservative G.O.P. primary electorate dominates the nominating process. On the other hand, the prospect of two moderates, Kemp and Colin Powell, battling the likes of Pat Buchanan could make the 1960s struggle for the party's soul seem tame by comparison...
...hard to dispute the data that show parochial schools to be the best hope in a bad neighborhood. In the U.S. the Roman Catholic Church operates 8,293 elementary and secondary schools with 2.6 million students, about half the number of their peak years in the mid-to-late 1960s. Due in part to a simultaneous decline in Catholic religious vocations, priests and nuns are largely gone from the classroom, replaced by lay professionals who now make up more than 85% of parochial-school personnel...
...character named Paul Theroux moves chronologically, chapter by chapter, through a life that is identical in all external details to the biographical sketches familiar to author Paul Theroux's readers. First comes his stint as a Peace Corps volunteer in Africa in the mid-1960s, followed by a period in Singapore, where he teaches English and begins attracting attention as a promising young novelist. Then comes the long sojourn in London, where, as an American expatriate and the happily married father of two sons, he writes novels (The Family Arsenal, The Mosquito Coast) that firm up his reputation and livelihood...
DIED. JOANNE DRU, 74, actress; of respiratory illness; in Beverly Hills, California. Dru starred in the classic westerns Red River, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Wagon Master; in the early 1960s she played a New Yorker running a New Mexico dude ranch in the short-lived TV series Guestward...