Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, at last, the two families got all choked up with fellow-feeling. But by then the play itself was choked with clumsy staging, clumsier plotting and pleas for tolerance. The pleas were well meant, but the tragedy seemed as ill-founded as the bigotry, and a few sharp moments were lathered into a soap opera that closed at week...
...haired wife of Henry Rudkin, a prosperous Wall Street broker, she lived a life of ease and social grace on their Pepperidge Farm (named after pepperidge, or black gum, trees on the property) near Fairfield, Conn. Then in the mid-1930s, the youngest of her three sons became ill with asthma. An admitted "nut on proper food for children," Mrs. Rudkin knew that asthma is an allergy, was nonetheless convinced that she could help her son by building him up. She dug out a whole-wheat-bread recipe left by her Irish grandmother, packed her baking pan with...
...shooting. Then Bergman grimly pulls on the sailor's watch cap he wears in the studio and starts to shoot his film: "A tapeworm 2,500 meters long that sucks the life and spirit out of me. It is dreadfully exacting work. When I am filming, I am ill...
...Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Ill., a pretty, blue-eyed young woman, who might be mistaken for a home economics teacher, instead makes an unusual approach to the teaching of high school English. Karin De Long spiritedly guides her students through challenging books, then has them find and lift out techniques to use in their own writing. Any kind of writing-mostly good, but sometimes bad-is fair game for Teacher De Long. One week she may give her class Chaucer, another week Thomas Hardy, another a collection of Japanese Haiku (17-syllable poems). "I want to see both...
Died. Walter Yust, 65, tall, stooped, onetime newsman (Philadelphia Evening Ledger and Press) and literary editor (Philadelphia Public Ledger), longtime (from 1938 to last month) editor in chief of all Encyclopaedia Britannica publications; of a heart attack; in Evanston, Ill...