Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...page booklet is co-authored by Margaret D. Doty and S. Jane Elben, assistants to Leonard, and Valeria I. Jones, an employee relations representative. The handbook provides information on such issues as transfers, maternity leave, job classification and tuition assistance...
...only produce an out-of-date press card. At headquarters, the suspicious cops satisfied themselves that "Tony Charles Snow-down [sic]" was not the peddler's accomplice. They issued him a temporary press card and prepared to let him go. Then someone did a double take. Hastily, Princess Margaret's husband, Lord Snowdon, was whisked into Police Commissioner Philip G. Tannian's office for a chat and an apology. That was more than Tony got from Mayor Coleman Young. On a short assignment to photograph the crime-ridden city for the London Sunday Times, Snowdon asked...
...tenant farmers and migrant workers, the victims of the Spanish Civil War. Too often, though, documentary journalists concentrated more on their own responses than on the experience or the social predicament of the people whom they photographed and described. At Stott points out, there was something spurious about Margaret Bourke-White's photographs of smiling sharecroppers that seemed to shout at me, I'm so poor. I don't know how wretched I really...
...Margaret Craven, a journalist and short-story writer, stayed on for weeks at Kingcome: listening, interviewing, taking notes. Like many another writer in similar circumstances, she resolved that she would get it all down before it was gone forever. What she finally produced was I Heard the Owl Call My Name, a blend of fact and imagination that can better be described as a prose elegy than a novel...
Boiled Candlefish. The device that transforms the book into fiction is rude enough. Everything that Margaret Craven swiftly experienced and loved about the Kwakiutls is gradually learned by a young Anglican vicar, Mark Brian. He is fatally ill but does not know it, and has been sent to the village by his bishop to "learn enough of life to be ready to die." Much of Mark's story is presented as a marvelously compact and compelling semidocumentary. The reader meets the old and the young of the village, learns that much of the tribe's food is customarily...