Word: davision
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even when it does not lead to violence -as it has in Clinton, Tenn.-the process of desegregating Southern public schools creates problems that can dismay the most idealistic of men. Last week, after five months of investigating the effects of integration in Washington, D.C., the four Southern members of...
¶ Australia's Ken Rosewall and Lew Hoad hardly worked up a sweat making a clean sweep (5-0) of the challenge round for the Davis Cup. They breezed by the worst U.S. team in years, got no real opposition from Pennsylvania's Vic Seixas or California'...
THE LIFE OF WILKIE COLLINS (360 pp.) Nuel Pharr Davis-University of Illinois ($5.75).
Wilkie Collins is recognized today as one of the most influential and readable of Victorian novelists. In an age when the three-volume serialized novel offered mostly narrative sprawl and chaos, Collins fashioned plot lines of watchwork precision for 36 separate books, including his masterpieces, The Moonstone and The Woman...
Eccentric Human Nature. He was the son of a stuffy, snobbish Royal Academician named William Collins, whose only aim in life was to climb to the top of the ladder, kicking off old friends at every rung. Wilkie rebelled violently against his father's way of life-particularly because...