Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encouraging not for Harvard--plagued by bad news most of the year--was the return to action of 6-3 jumper Bobby Johnson. With Johnson and the rest of the team clicking, Harvard will trounce the Indians from New Hampshire on Wednesday...
...event that impinges on the well-earned satisfactions of Eliot's Indian-summer years is the sadistic murder of an eight-year-old boy by a lesbian couple. This grisly action greatly resembles the Moors murder case, described in 1967 by Snow's novelist wife Pamela Hansford Johnson in a short book of moralizing social criticism called On Iniquity. Trying to match modified reality with near-art, Snow contrives to have Eliot drawn into the murder's aftermath and the murderers' trial through a series of unconvincing coincidences. The brother of one of the killers...
...people's republic of East Germany has already produced one gifted novelist, Uwe Johnson (Speculations About Jakob). Now, in Fritz Fries, it may have the makings of another. But where Johnson's austere prose was deeply ingrained with the drab, isolated atmosphere of East Germany not long after the war, Fries turns out to be a far more frivolous and cosmopolitan creature. His first novel is officially set in Leipzig, Fries and his characters, though, seem to belong to the new international Brüderschaft of the educated, disenchanted young, who uneasily share pop culture and rock music...
...creature, the artist-bum Gulley Jimson in The Horse's Mouth. Experience as a British colonial official (from 1914 to 1920 in Nigeria) lent nuances to one of the best portraits of an emergent African in fiction, the black-skinned hero of Gary's fifth book, Mister Johnson...
...Johnson, the 6-3 forward who provides rebounding strength for the often-beleaguered front line, has returned to Cambridge after a rough bout with the flu, but indications are that he won't try to play this weekend, postponing his re-debut until Monday, at Tufts...