Word: blaire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Veteran J.V. stroke Woody Canaday, who rowed especially well in the Wisconsin race, will lead the Crimson to Henley. Won Kim will handle the steering. Steve Carr will be at seven. Tim Hosea at six, Peter Blair at five and Jim Owen at four. Sophomore Ronny Shaw will row at three in the standard-rigged boat, with Greg Stone and Terry Ferguson...
...sexual revolution has had a disconcerting effect on the society, probably because Jesuits were so ill-prepared for it. "I was a scholar-athlete," says Robert Blair Kaiser, a journalist and author who studied for ten years as a Jesuit in the '50s. "We were taught to be well-rounded in everything except how to relate to women." As a result of the protective environment, says Presidential Aide John McLaughlin, the newly freed Jesuit often seemed to be struck by "delayed puberty." In the encounter, some debarked. Many of those who remain seem to have resolved the issue. A remarkable...
...UNKNOWN ORWELL suffers from one service internal flow It is just about impossible to discuss a writer in terms of his origins and development and then stop short of evaluating his performance as a writer, It is impossible to discuss how Eric Blair turned into a writer without considering what kind of writer he became...
...WHETHER the research is ill-done or well, one problem facing any account of Eric Blair's development is that Orwell has already done it, and with more style, Modern critics can harp endlessly on the Blair-Orwell dichotomy, inflating it to the point of benign schizophrenia in a way that Orwell himself could not have done but they won reach the point of diminishing returns...
...fairness to Abrahams and Stansky, they don't dwell unduly on this marvelous transformation from Blair the pukka sahib to Orwell the socialist. Instead, they dwell on Eric Blair, and in the process do a bit of good social history. To describe the Indian Imperial Police they are forced to rely heavily on men who were Blair's contemporaries in it, who by and large remained imperialists, while Blair resigned. No one reads literary biography for information on the British Empire in its late decadence. But plenty of people interested in Orwell are also interested in the atmosphere of British...