Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marty learned that her husband was also among the first group released. She was waiting to tell him, among other things, about the strange looks she was getting at a Baptist-nursery-school parents' meeting. Finally, one mother demanded to know why her husband was in jail. Dabney, it turned out, had told her little classmates that her father was a "prisoner...
...return of a once-prominent local lawyer to Batavia; self-exiled because of personal and financial disasters. No longer quite sane, Taggart Hodge assumes the pseudonym of the "Sunlight Man," a mystic, magician and aspiring philosopher king. Much of the story takes the shape of a thriller, replete with jail-break, murder, appearances and disappearances. But Medievalist Gardner doesn't stop here. The secretive dialogues of Hodge, an elusive and outspoken anarchist, with Batavia's strict law-and-order police chief (hence the title) are strangely reminiscent of Grendel's talks with Unferth in Grendel...
BOSTON REPERTORY THEATER. The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail after Thoreau. The Little Prince ater Saint-Exupery, The Thirteen Clocks after Thurber, in repertory, as you might expect. Marlboro and Berkeley Streets in Boston...
...from--the intellectual and social and spiritual life of the place. I have also read with only a little amusement a journal entry written by a girl in my nineteenth century novel course in which she compared herself and her undergraduate friends with the prisoners in the Fleet Street Jail in Pickwick Papers, sitting on the stairs "the greater part because they were restless and uncomfortable and not possessed of exactly knowing what to do with themselves...
...fine. When asked if his arrest might have a "chilling effect" on First Amendment rights, Whitten quipped: "I was personally chilled." Anderson's response was warmer. He charged that the FBI has been following and harassing his staff. "All of us are ready to join Les Whitten in jail if we must," he said, "before we stop digging out and reporting the news...