Word: cullen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...victims, William Cullen, 25, of Berlin, was in critical condition at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester...
...Murphy (Cullen, Ladouceur...
...couple of decades later, it was the "Harlem Renaissance" that would lay the best-publicized claim to the word. This highly self-conscious movement was born largely through the midwifery of Alain Locke, the first black Rhodes scholar. Writers such as Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Jessie Fauset and Zora Neale Hurston -- the fundaments of the black literary canon today -- came of age at this time, leading the New York Herald Tribune to announce in 1925 that America was "on the edge, if not already in the midst, of what might not improperly be called a Negro renaissance...
...became something of a national culture hero: a young one for a young nation. He was esteemed as the founder of national landscape painting in the U.S. -- the so-called Hudson River School. At his death, the wild places of the Catskills mourned him. "We might dream," declaimed William Cullen Bryant in his funeral oration on Cole, "that the conscious valleys miss his accustomed visits and that the autumnal glories of the woods are paler because of his departure." His death, opined a newspaper editorial, was "a public and national calamity." Even allowing for the high rhetorical tint required...
...Authority in Knoxville. He didn't feel he fit in his family or his schools. He tried the University of Tennessee twice and the U.S. Air Force once. He married a young woman from college named Lee Holleman, the first of his two wives, and they had a son, Cullen, who is an architect in Spain. The elder McCarthy's first book was The Orchard Keeper, an unsentimental, striking, powerful, lovely commemorative to a gone way of life in the old Tennessee hills that ended so portentously it made you want to snatch Faulkner from the grave and choke...