Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. David Blair Owen, 51, onetime president of Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., who resigned in 1952 after a New York judge sent five Bradley basketball players to jail for throwing a game but fingered Owen as the true culprit for fostering "illegal recruiting, subsidization of athletes, evasion of scholastic standards, corruption of the athlete, the coach and the college official"; of a beating suffered when he was robbed and stripped in a cheap Washington, D.C. hotel...
...bleak agony of it made its way onto canvas after canvas: the bloody strikes, the mine disasters, that numbing, job losing moment that Evergood recorded as The Pink Dismissal Slip Evergood himself was a part of the famed "219 Strike," in which 219 artists staged an ill-fated demonstration against being swept from the rolls of the WPA. He was clubed into sensibility, spent the night in a cell ankle-deep in filth. On canvas, Evergood's figures were apt to be as chunky as himself, his colors applied in solid intricately designed blocks. But the mood could...
When John Donner tries to return from the West to his birthplace in Pennsylvania, he is an old man, and Unionville has long been under the waters of a huge hydroelectric dam. Donner has been ill, and he is perhaps a little unbalanced as well. The local graveyards were moved up to high ground when the valley was flooded, and as he stands before the graves of his family, Donner is swept away by memories. In his fevered imagination, his boyhood Unionville exists again. He walks the streets, peers into houses, recognizes old friends and acquaintances. He even visits...