Word: boyds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sick of irrelevant things on the sports page? Well, tough darts, pal. Why don't you unglue that Morrison & Boyd from your hand for a minute and feast your peepers on the most pointless test of knowledge you're probably ever going to face here...
...ceiling-high mountain of tenth-edition Samuelson "Economics" texts stood in contrast to the empty shelves from which several hundred copies of Morrison and Boyd's "Organic Chemistry" had already disappeared...
Only in the intellectual fields of history and fiction has the South been brilliantly represented. But most of the luminaries left the South-Robert Penn Warren, Truman Capote, Lillian Hellman, William Styron went to the North to write. Historians C. Vann Woodward, Julian Boyd and David Donald went to the North to teach. Explains one Deep South professor who moved away ten years ago: "Southern universities were not exactly bastions of freedom. Intellectuals could be severely hassled, and professors who held divergent views had to be either gutsy or masochistic to stay. It's difficult to seek or create...
...staff were ever sick either -they didn't dare be. Recalls one: "Boyd wouldn't recognize anything short of an amputation." Equally tireless away from work, Boyd over the years has run a program in the Catskills for neighboring kids as well as his own five children and seven grandchildren. He also skis, bicycles and teaches handicraft and square dancing...
During his earlier years at TIME, Boyd oversaw a rather remarkable generation of copy boys, including TV Talk Show Host Dick Cavett, Author George Plimpton and TIME'S present managing editor, Henry Anatole Grunwald. In a risky, highly unusual but apparently astute move, Boyd late one night asked Grunwald to green a story. "Perhaps he was testing me," recalls Grunwald today. TIME was later to test Boyd when he was told to become a computer expert and lead us into what Grunwald describes as the "promised land of interface and input" sans the jargon. We are almost there today...