Word: lees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...families fled the country together in 1919. Later, in Paris, Vishniak edited a Russian quarterly that published young Vladimir's early novels. Researcher Vera Kovarsky, who also escaped to France with her family during the Russian Revolution, remembers Nabokov from literary evenings in Paris. Contributing Editor Alwyn Lee met the novelist in 1958, when he wrote TIME'S highly laudatory review of Lolita...
...painter hero (Donald Madden) spends all of his stage time in an unrelieved agony of mental and physical disintegration that ends in death. His bitchy, sex-starved wife (Anne Meacham) is addicted to plaintive monologues and a frustrated effort to seduce the Japanese barman. The barman (Jon Lee) is a model of stoic restraint and may represent serenity. He also represents something Williams does not admire: a planned hibernation of the spirit in which one evades any commitment to love, hate or passion. Instead of eloquence, the play offers truncated, disjointed sentences. Inertia usurps the role of action; the prevailing...
...Died. W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel, 79, Texas Governor (1939-41) and U.S. Senator (1941-49) whose raucous hill billy campaigns amused a generation of Texans; in Dallas. A flour salesman and radio singer, O'Daniel entered politics in 1938 by running for Governor on a platform that included the Ten Commandments and mother love; he stumped the state singing his theme song, Pass the Biscuits, Pappy - and won by a landslide. Though he was inept as Governor, Texans gave him a second term, then sent him to the Senate after a primary battle in which he defeated...
...addition, he placed third in the Easterns twice and second once. In the traditionally western-dominated NCAA's, Lee finished fourth in the 123-pound class in both his junior and senior years. He won the AAU championship...
...Lee is one of three Harvard coaches to be selected for an important post this year. Loyal Park is secretary-treasurer of the New England Baseball Coaches Association, and Eugene Kinasewich is the newly-appointed President of the Western Hockey League...