Word: lester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hudd. Slowly her voluble good spirits curdle into nervousness and sorrow. Ed Finnegan also gives an outstanding performance, musing and whining with great finesse as the elderly Mr. Kidd. Dustin Hoffman plays Mr. Hudd with realistic stolidness. The other parts are handled skillfully by Paul Benedicts, Vera Lee, and Lester Gilmore...
Dean Ford announced the appointment of four men to the rank of assistant professor yesterday. The new appointees are Thomas E. Skidmore in History, and Dwight H. Perkins, Gerald D. Rosenthal, and Lester D. Taylor in Economics...
Yearn for immortality? Pine to be remembered till the last dingdong of doom? Want to be sure your memory remains green to every generation of your descendants? It's as easy as hifi. So writes Lester C. Worden in his book, A Living Legacy...
Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson's administration had long delayed such a drastic step, though a S.I.U. walkout and the dynamiting of a Canadian freighter manned by a rival union last fall indicated that there would be no waterfront peace as long as Banks was in power. For the past five months, government-appointed trustees have run the S.I.U. in an effort to clean it up and get the members themselves to vote Banks...
Even more than his father, Jamie is drawn to local characters. At Swarthmore he shows a translucent, almost Flemish portrait of Lester, which suggests that everyman's mind, like the dumbest, claws at his own furthest limits of knowing the world. Another portrait is Shorty, which sets a stubble-faced recluse incongruously in a sleek green silk wingback chair. (Soon after the portrait was finished, Shorty burned to death in his shack.) An eerie vision of a Mushroom Picker in the subterranean farms of Pennsylvania casts the tiny fungus caps in an almost surreal drama of light and shadow...