Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Williams S. Barnes, assistant dean of the Law School, overwhelmingly topped the Cambridge School Committee ticket after the first unofficial count. His 5,155 votes made him the only candidates to reach quota on the first ballot...
Afraid of Thunder. Precocious as a writer, Joyce was also precocious sociologically. He had his first sexual experience at the age of 14 with a prostitute on a riverbank. Some small taint of degradation kept clinging to his idea of sex-one of the many dramatic paradoxes in his life. He was a near-alcoholic; yet he pursued his writing craft with monastic austerity. He had the courage to face approaching blindness, eleven eye operations, and his daughter Lucia's madness, but he ran from dogs and thunder. He renounced Roman Catholicism, but he could never rid his mind...
Joyce always liked to say that Nora Barnacle had come "sauntering" into his life out of the Dublin hotel where she worked as a waitress. The first day they went walking together was June 16, 1904, and Joyce always regarded it so romantically that he made it Bloomsday. the day everything happens in Ulysses. Nora had only a grammar school education, but when Joyce spouted his literary dreams to her and then declaimed: "Is there one who understands me?", Nora understood enough to say yes. She eloped with him to the Continent (they were not married till 27 years later...
During the next dark decade, Joyce badgered publishers in vain, cadged meals, cheated landlords, begged, scrounged and borrowed, taught English at Berlitz and clerked in a bank, suffered his first eye attacks, trundled his family from city to city, and drank steadily. During visits home, he would stumble to meet Stanislaus, and that sturdy keeper of his brother's conscience would shout: "Do you want to go blind? Do you want to go about with a little...
...first half, the varsity could not launch a sustained offense, and the two teams sparred inconclusively up and down the field. The Crimson pressed harder during the third period, and really let loose with a fourth-quarter surge that seemed certain to break the scoreless deadlock...