Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hunter: Detective William Majeski, 36, of Manhattan's Ninth Precinct. The hunted: Jack Henry Abbott, 37, ex-con (bank robbery and murder), protege of Norman Mailer, and overnight literary sensation with the publication of his prison memoirs, In the Belly of the Beast. They came into conflict, unseen opponents, shortly before dawn on July 18. Answering a call for police help in the East Village, Majeski arrived to find the body of an aspiring actor named Richard Adan lying in the street. Adan, 22, had been stabbed after an argument that began in the restaurant where he worked nights...
...profession." That night he believed the man who had murdered Adan had to be caught "before he killed anyone else." The detective ran into a bit of luck when someone pointed out two stylish young women who had been sitting with Adan's assailant. From them, he got Abbott's name and description. Back at the station, Majeski delved into Abbott's background, trying to figure out where he would go next. Five hours after he fled the scene of the crime, Abbott brazenly kept a brunch date at the apartment of a writer friend. Majeski missed...
...HARVARD of which Abbott Lawrence Lowell became president in 1909 was about as different from today's University as Lamont Library is from Widener. Academic concentrations did not exist; instead, an elective system gave students a wide reign in choosing courses. Tutorials, reading period, and general examinations were things of the future. So was the House system...
EXHIBIT: "Images from Physics: Photographs by Berenice Abbott"; Hayden Corridor Gallery...
...fugitive from the North, and his hard, lean looks, the result of a life in prison that consumed nearly 25 of his 37 years, enabled Jack Henry Abbott to mix in easily with the transient roustabouts who work the Louisiana oilfields. It was the sort of life where a man could, if he wanted to, virtually disappear. Earlier this year, Norman Mailer had led a campaign to secure parole for Abbott, largely on the basis of his writing talent. His letters from prison, collected under the title In the Belly of the Beast, were released to fair critical acclaim...