Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bryant fearfully recalls some of the more tense moments he has spent in Widener. Sometime in the 1950s, he recalls, a professor emeritus "of vast age" disappeared into the stacks with coat and hat to read. Sometime later, one library staffer found just the coat and hat where the professor had been. "The rumors flew hot and heavy," Bryant remembers, but the professor had merely forgotten his things. Incidents of theft rattle his memory further. While Bryant was still a student, the story is told, a man stole thousands of books from the collection. The culprit was later caught...
Friday at 8 p.m., the Harvard University Jazz Band will present a program of the music of Charles Mingus. The legendary bassist-composer had planned to attend the concert; his death in January at age 56 makes this performance a timely tribute to a stormy giant of American music. Trumpeter par excellence Ted Curson, who was a member of the Mingus Jazz Workshop in the early 60's, will be on hand to provide some of the spirit that Mingus passed on to all those with whom he played...
DONALD BARTHELME WAS born and raised in Texas, and remains a shining example for all those unfortunates stricken with similar childhood calamities. At age 47, he is one of the most important writers in America today, published in both The New Yorker and in paperback--a rare, if dubious, achievement. Barthelme leads the so-called "comic irrealist" movement in modern fiction, which includes such lesser writers as Richard Brautigan and William Gass. But in his latest collection of short stories, Barthelme proves more adventurous than successful; stretched beyond its limits, his genre becomes tedious and inconsequential...
Thomas Sloan, communications director for Wrigley, said yesterday, "The huge advertising campaign is in response to what appears to be an increasingly large demand for bubble gum. We originally thought our market included only juveniles, but now we believe our market includes college-age students as well...
...killed were William West, age 52; Leslie Clark, age 46; and Hartford policeman Edward T. Cody...