Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second prize, Poirier chose a tragicomic story by Ivan Gold, and made clear how closely it too displays the search by the writer for authentic attitudes, his impatience with conventional social definitions. Called "The Nickel Misery of George Washington Carver Brown," it tells of the death (interestingly, five of the twelve prizewinners deal with dying) of Brown, one of two Negroes in a basic training platoon. Gold satirizes the remaining main characters--the embittered Corporal Cherry, Private Hines, whose inclusion makes it clear that Gold is not particularly concerned with Brown as a member of a minority group, and Private...
...Rome's Via Veneto, the night was gay with lights and pink azaleas in curbside tubs. At a sidewalk cafe, Ivan Kro-scenko, 31. a man in a black leather jacket, sipped espresso and cased the pedestrian traffic with a predatory eye. A bearded giant strode past: Cinemactor Steve ("Hercules") Reeves. "Mr. Universe," sneered Kroscenko softly. "So who cares?" He was after bigger game. "Linda Christian. Ava Gardner, Anita Ekberg. Jayne Mansfield." he rolled the names lovingly across his tongue. "They are important people. They make trouble." Kroscenko rose, slung the strap of his Rolleicord camera over a shoulder...
Priests & Prisoners. It is among writers and other editorial workers that Raymond B. Cattell and Ivan H. Sheier of the University of Illinois have found the highest anxiety ratings, based on complex personality tests. That they come just ahead of the Navy's underwater demolition teams (frogmen) is probably due more to their higher verbal abilities than to on-the-job hazards. Air pilots in training have, naturally, more anxiety than business executives; priests have less?but this may be a reflection of their having found a certainty of faith and of a rigid routine that conceals if it does...
...poems in Mosaic, two are especially appealing, one an excellent translation of a Yiddish poem, "The Prayer of Ivan the Drunk," the other a delightful short poem by George Blecher, a junior in the College...
Leverett will swim John P. Arnold '63 breaststroke. Freestyler Ivan H. '63 swims the 50 in about 26 se while Raimund G. Vanderwell, Jr. John M. Kasdan '61 have been d in 27. Completing the Leverett are Ralph E. Miller '61 in the but- and Lawrence J. Lewis '62, back-r. The swimmers and their events undergo considerable juggling at de Thursday...