Word: dickey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will take lot longer than a month for New York fans to forget that day. Quarterback Richard Todd racked up four touchdowns against a porous Packer defense, and the Jets' defensive front four, led by Mark Gastineau and Joe Klecko, put constant pressure on beleaguered Green Bay QB Lynn Dickey...
BORN. To James Dickey, 58, Southern poet and novelist (Deliverance), and his wife Deborah, 29, a girl, her first child, his third; in Columbia, S.C.; weight 5 lbs. 5 oz. Name: Bronwen Elaine...
...Drake, N. Dak., the five-member school board in 1973 ordered the confiscation and burning of three books that, according to Professor Jenkinson, none of the members had read: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, James Dickey's Deliverance and an anthology of short stories by writers like Joseph Conrad, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner. Said the school superintendent Slater: "I don't regret it one bit, and we'd do it again. I'm just sorry about all the publicity that we got." In Warsaw, Ind., a gaggle of citizens in 1977 publicly burned...
...your Essay pairing poets laureate with presidential candidates [Aug. 25], I was surprised to find that "James Dickey probably would belong more with Lyndon Johnson than with Carter." Why, exactly? It is true that I was asked to write a poem and deliver it at President Carter's Inauguration, which I did. I was poetry consultant to the Library of Congress during Johnson's Administration, but poets are not allowed to pick their Presidents. My political sympathies at the time were in no sense with the late President, but with then Senator Eugene McCarthy...
...James Dickey Columbia...