Word: allens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time was, of course, when summer fare was strictly "hammock reading": Agatha Christie, Erie Stanley Gardner, Ellery Queen, Thurber, Smith (H. Allen, Logan Pearsall or Thome), Bob Benchley, Eric Ambler, Erskine Caldwell -authors who could be read by firefly or by fishing stream, and required no expenditure of thought. Few weighty books were published in summer, and few were bought...
...nearly 600 agitators gathered on the campus and then marched through Berkeley to rally outside Crittenden's courtroom. They sang We Shall Over come, heard Cal professors criticize U.S. policy in Viet Nam and Savio complain about U.S. justice. Also on hand was Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg, who clanged a pair of tiny cymbals and mumbled an unintelligible, prayerlike chant. What was he trying to say? "That was a magic formula to soothe and calm the heart of the judge," Ginsberg explained...
...fourth and final offering of the season, the American Shakespeare Festival has come up with its first revival of a production: the Morris Carnovsky-Allen Fletcher concept of King Lear...
...Buckley, perhaps the most society-conscious of the city's schools for boys, encourages parents to apply when their children are born, and most of the top schools book their classes far in advance on a first-come, first-considered basis. Even acquiring an application form is competitive; Allen-Stevenson, which graduates only a dozen boys a year, does not send a blank unless it gets satisfactory telephoned answers to nine questions. The most important: "Who recommended the school to you?" and "What school is the boy attending...
...reference letters may observe the old rule of thumb that "a thick folder indicates a thick boy." An edge is conceded to parents with prominent names or prominent bank accounts; yet any hint that they are trying to buy their way in, explains Henry D. Tiffany Jr., headmaster of Allen-Stevenson, "is practically the kiss of death...