Word: emphysema
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. William J. Sebald, 78, who as political adviser to General Douglas MacArthur in postwar Japan played a leading role in repatriating more than 500,000 Japanese prisoners of war and later served as Ambassador to Burma and Australia; of emphysema; in Naples...
DIED. Kenneth Tynan, 53, English drama critic and writer, whose astringently elegant, epigrammatic prose stirred controversy and swayed opinions on both sides of the Atlantic; of emphysema; in Santa Monica, Calif. He cut a precocious figure at Oxford, and by age 27 was drama critic of the London Observer. Admitting that his aim was to "rouse tempers, goad, lacerate, raise whirlwinds," he championed new playwrights (Osborne, Wesker) whose work undermined drawing-room gentility and reinforced "the umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world." For ten years, starting in 1963, Tynan served...