Word: compton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Today an immense ignorance of Japanese swords prevails outside Japan. There is one great private collection of them in the U.S., gathered over 40 years by Dr. Walter Compton of Elkhart, Ind. Last week 46 of his classical blades-the tachi or long cavalry sword, the shorter katana and the dirks known as tantos and wakizashis-went on view at Manhattan's Japan Society. The show is a scholarly event of the first importance, and its catalogue-mainly written by Japan's leading student of blades, 29-year-old Ogawa Morihiro-becomes at one stroke the standard text...
Russell F. Compton, M.D. Pasadena, Calif...
Even by Ulster standards, it was a crime of surpassing brutality. Early Monday evening a red minibus was routinely carrying twelve workers home from their jobs at the John Compton Ltd. textile factory in violence-ridden South Armagh (TIME, Jan. 12). Suddenly, just outside the village of Whitecross, the bus was stopped by a group of masked, heavily armed men. The workers and their driver were lined up against the vehicle, and the lone Roman Catholic among them was sent away. The rest, all Protestants, were then gunned down in a withering hail of automatic fire. Ten died instantly...
...many ways, the common people of this book are like those of The Sound and the Fury. There is a real feeling of perpetuity in their lives and in the lives of the people around them. Their commonness and their universality make them real to us; like Dilsey, the Compton's maid, "they endured," and they will endure...
...fact that if he were to quit, "there's more chance of those left getting downed [killed] quick. Besides, I live in Crip neighborhood-I'd still get messed with when I got to my pad. The only way to stop is to get out of Compton, and that's something that's not easy...