Word: incidentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Well, how was Watts?" neighbors would ask me after I returned from a summer of teaching there. I was always at a loss for a good answer, knowing that they knew about the ghetto only through the newspapers or perhaps Life magazine. To most of them, living in an all...
Premier Chung and his Cabinet fled. Four hours later, freshly bathed, they presented their resignations to President Chung Hee Park because "today's incident has greatly impaired the prestige and honor of the Cabinet." Though Park refused to accept their resignations immediately, it seemed that a Cabinet reshuffle was...
It misses by very little, however. Malamud's novel is a fictional version of the Beiliss Case in Kiev, 1911, in which a Jew was wrongly accused of the ritual murder of a Christian child and of milking his blood for the purpose of making Passover matzos. The incident...
During a visit to the Soviet Union in 1962, Salinger got into a discussion with Khrushchev on the subject of Richard Nixon. Khrushchev reminded Salinger of the incident in July 1960 when a U.S. Air Force RB-47 was shot down over the Barents Sea. Nixon, said Khrushchev, tried to...
Little Men. Incident at Exeter, by John G. Fuller, a columnist for the Saturday Review, is another saucer of flying fish. It simply records his interviews with witnesses at Exeter, N.H., after a glowing red object appeared over Route 150 at 2:24 a.m. on Sept. 3, 1965. Subsequently, Fuller...