Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THELMA DAVIS
>Paced by weepy Nicola Pietrangelo, 28, who won both his singles match and teamed with bubbly Orlando Sirola to win the doubles. Italy's Davis Cuppers swept past a weak U.S. team. 4-1, earned the right to meet Australia in the challenge round for the second year in...
Four years before Boswell got his book to the printer. Hawkins published an authoritative biography of Dr. Johnson. Johnson's friends and Hawkins' enemies briskly went to work, and six months after the book was issued in 1787. it was torpedoed and sunk. It went out of print...
Truth v. Charity. The ambush was done skillfully: one anonymous paragrapher wrote slyly that a reader "has been for several days afflicted with a lethargy, owing to the perusal of three chapters" of Hawkins' book. The implication is unjust; Hawkins is long-winded but not dangerously sedative, and even...
As Editor Davis points out. Hawkins was far less sentimental than Boswell about Johnson's marriage, at 25, to a well-to-do widow almost twice his age. Boswell paints it as a love match; Hawkins accepts without disapproval the more credible view that it was a marriage of...