Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NONFICTION: Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough, Hugo Vickers Maybe, Lillian Hellman Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook ∙The Oak and the Calf, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙The Return of Eva Perón, V.S.Naipaul Thirty Seconds, MichaelJ. Arlen Wilderness of Mirrors, David C. Martin
...Lillian Becker wanted to teach so much that she went back to college for her degree at age 42 and graduated from the City College of New York as a Phi Beta Kappa. Today, at Intermediate School 70 in Manhattan's Chelsea district, Becker scrubs the desks in her classroom herself and sweeps the floor three times each day. Says she: "Kids sense the order, and they like it. They behave differently in a clean classroom...
...Maybe, Lillian Hellman...
NONFICTION: Fatal Flowers, Rosemary Daniell ∙ Maybe, Lillian Hellman Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook ∙ The Last Nomad, Wilfred Thesiger ∙ The Return of Eva Peron, V.S. Naipaul ∙ Thirty Seconds, Michael J. Arlen ∙ Wilderness of Mirrors, David C. Martin
...DIED. Lillian Roth, 69, torchy-voiced singer-actress who told all about her lifelong struggle against alcoholism and mental illness in a poignant 1954 autobiography, I'll Cry Tomorrow, that became a hit movie starring Susan Hayward; following a stroke; in New York City. Pushed by ambitious parents, Roth was already a stage and vaudeville star when she began her Hollywood career at 18, but her professional success was punctuated by repeated personal disasters, including recurring drinking bouts, fits of depression and failed marriages. Her book's popularity helped launch a final comeback ("My 94th," she quipped) that...