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First it was the Afro, a frizzy, frazzled look that billowed out as a symbol of black pride and awareness. Later the 'fro became as passe among some avant-garde blacks as the plantation bandanna, giving way to such hairstyles as the puff and the shag. But no successor to the Afro coiffure has caught on more rapidly than the corn-row-tight, Topsy-like plaits that until recently were worn by women. Now a growing number of soul brothers are sporting buckwheat braids in as many variations as there are African nations, where the style is traditional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Masculine Twist | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

...outstanding ability to cram, Wells was able to avoid the draper's life his mother had so carefully planned for him. 'Bertie' was the youngest child--spoiled, frail, and often "dreamy." Later in life, this same dreamy imagination would spring Wells into the public eye via his scientific romances. Fro the time being, it sparked his curiosity and led to honors grades in school. After a rather torturous two years as a draper's apprentice, he was finally able to find some schooling and, in 1885, gain entrance into London University. It was here that many of Wells's strongest...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: The Evolution of H.G. Wells | 12/14/1973 | See Source »

...missed Harry too. Bob Harrison, a combustive man who lit the fuse on the longest and most anticipated dud firecracker that Cambridge has known in its athletic history or will ever hope to know. Harry, a man who plotted and schemed in dark corners and at locker room blackboards fro five uninspirational years, hoping at each turn in the road that the solution, the missing link, the lost piece in the jigsaw puzzle would stumble against his feet, and allow at long last his masterplan to reach a productive and manifest fruition. Harry, who was to bring...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Where Have All the Heroes Gone? | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

...Professor Koenigs offered himself as a public warning. As he marched to and fro, several older people came up to congratulate him for his demonstration. But a crowd of students began gathering too, threatening to beat up the older people unless they kept quiet and went away. Koenigs needed the warnings, gave up his parade and went home and cleaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Professor Protests | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

...their husbands. The film ends with Anna reading of a moment of "perfect happiness" in Agnes's diary--an August afternoon; she was well enough to leave her bed and walk on the grounds with her newly-arrived sisters to a swing, where Anna gently rocks them to and fro in the summer...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Tissue of Lies | 2/20/1973 | See Source »

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