Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Malvina Reynolds, 63, wife of a retired carpenter, has been writing new folk songs for about 15 years. She has a Ph.D. in literature from the University of California in Berkeley, where her thesis was about a medieval folk tale. Her first songs were sung by Pete Seeger and the group that evolved into The Weavers, and she has been supplying the folk-singing boom ever since...
...multiplied virally all over the country. A Harvard professor at a recent conference struck a blow at "students made out of ticky tacky." Actress Rita Gam used the words ticky tacky at least 100 times at a Manhattan dinner party last week. A realty firm in Berkeley has a blurb claiming that it sells "distinguished houses, not ticky tacky." After hearing the song, a professor at the University of Miami said: "I've been lecturing my classes about middleclass conformity for a whole semester. Here's a song that says it all in 1½ minutes...
These men are among 53 to win American Council of Learned Societies awards in a national competition. Harvard and Berkeley each had five winners; Princeton had four, and Yale, Vasser and Williams had two each...
Nearly one hundred schools from across the country will attend the tournament, but representation will be heaviest among Western and Southern schools. Texas University, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, Northwestern University, will be among the school's present...
...survived by a daughter, Mrs. Sherwood Washburn of Berkeley, Calif, and by two grandsons...