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...mean, but he's good," said Cora Mae Basnight, who played an Indian in the first staging of the work and who has had the supporting role of Agona, an Indian maiden, off and on since 1957. All seven of her children have been in the show. "Even so," Cora Mae went on, "I feel sorry for all those young girls; he just tears 'em up. Us old ones let it roll off our backs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Carolina: The Play Plays On and On | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

...conversation cited by University of Virginia philosopher Cora Diamond illustrates Dreben's intellectual approach...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: 'A Socratic Gadfly' | 4/18/1984 | See Source »

...just heard one crash after another," said Hotel Manager Dan Dick. After midnight, Mayor Manuel finally ordered a widespread evacuation, but by that time it was impossible for people to drive across the bridges leading to the mainland. Hundreds headed instead for the three Red Cross shelters. Said Cora Handy, 73, as she walked with the help of her cane through a shelter at a local school: "I just couldn't see that I could stay in my house, so I left. I was still trembling when I got here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coping with Nature | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

...mother Mrs. Cora DeBoyer, a strong-willed woman who had been married at least five times. Sedgwick employed the Rev. William E. Barton, 67, a Boston minister who had written books about Lincoln, to study the letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitler's Forged Diaries | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

...Moore, who came to Harvard last summer. From 1963 to 1977, she was the only woman in the University of Southern California's Department of Sociology. (Until she established U.S.C.'s Anthropology Department she was also its only anthropologist.) Nor is Moore breaking new ground: Cora DuBois, professor of Anthropology emeritus, taught here from 1954 until her retirement...

Author: By Jonathan Shayne, | Title: Anthropologist Moore Is Settling In | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

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