Word: hampden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finally landed a job as a prep-school English instructor at Hampden, Me. At night Tabitha put on her hot-pink uniform and went to work at Dunkin' Donuts. When she exited, King turned to the typewriter which was perched on a child's desk. As an adolescent, he had read Richard Matheson's The Shrinking Man and other works that were adapted for The Twilight Zone. "The same year," he recalls, "I read Peyton Place and Kings Row. I understood instinctively that both authors were talking about the small-town caste society that I grew up in, the veil...
...whose only previous encounter with Viet Nam may have been a question on The Hollywood Squares. "The movie doesn't have a lot to do with Viet Nam and how we felt when we were there," says Josiah Bunting III, a Viet Nam veteran who is now president of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. "It's impossible to take seriously, but it's very enjoyable...
...Proclaimed Critic Max Beerbohm: "Even if Cyrano be not a classic, it is at least a wonderfully ingenious counterfeit of one." And even if, in this century, the counterfeit has become more evident than the ingenuity, Rostand's rhapsody has attracted new generations of star actors, from Walter Hampden to Ralph Richardson to José Ferrer in the Oscar-winning film version. But the movie ran only 112 min.; the R.S.C. Cyrano soldiers on at nearly twice that length. More important, Anthony Burgess's verse translation, while lean and clever ("Our devil's changed into a Christian...
...Former Hampden County Registrar of Deeds John Pierce Lynch, considered a long shot for the nomination, offered the most iconoclastic positions, calling for a summit meeting of world leaders in Boston, a four-day work week, and for the lobbying organization Common Cause to oversee all campaign contributions of more than...
...committee decided to table to bill instead of rejecting it outright because many of its 15 members, "lean towards the side that says dogs shouldn't be used in experiments," said John P. Carvello, staff assistant to Chairman Rep. Raymond A. Jordan (D-Hampden...