Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cecil A. Roberts, deputy crime chief, said that some of the remaining American survivors in Guyana could be released late this weekend. Eight elderly survivors have already been allowed to return to the United States because of their age...
Walter Jackson Bate '39, Lowell Professor of the Humanities, is recovering from a stroke he suffered last Tuesday and will be unable to lecture in English 140b, "The Age of Johnson," for the rest of the term. James T. Engell '73, assistant professor of English, who will take over Bate's classes, made the announcement to a stunned class yesterday...
...Times has always been '60s going on '70s, a magazine born in the present decade but tailored for people who came of age during the last one, too old for Rolling Stone and too young for Commentary. For five years and 130 issues, the biweekly "feature news magazine," as New Times was subtitled, rushed into that demographic gap with a mix of eye-popping investigative reporting, idiosyncratic political analysis and scary environmental disclosures, all in a high-protein prose that virtually leaped off the page with youthful exuberance...
...professional man of letters, like the shepherd and the blacksmith, is a vanishing species, found mainly in the British Isles. William Plomer, who died in 1973 at the age of 69, was a notable specimen. He made his debut at 21 with Turbott Wolfe, a novel that Leonard and Virginia Woolf recognized as a minor masterpiece when he submitted it to their Hogarth Press. For half a century, biographies, essays, librettos, novels and poems fell from his prolific pen; Plomer had no typewriter. "Machines do not like me," he explained. "When I touch them they tend to break down...
...furnished by British Author Ian McEwan, 29, in this tight, unsettling first novel. The place stands almost deserted amid urban rubble, one of the few survivors of a highway plan that went nowhere. In it live Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom, a reasonably normal array of siblings ranging in age from 17 to six, and their mother, who is dying. The earlier death of the father and the mother's terminal illness have produced an upsurge in slovenliness and disorder among the children. What happens when the last adult dies is the stuff of tabloid headlines and, surprisingly, good...