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Over in Simcoe, Ont., a young butcher's helper and part-time bass-guitar player named Rick Danko felt a similar urge. Driving up to his parents' home one evening in a friend's Cadillac, he cried out: "I've got to leave tonight; it's now or never!" He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Down to Old Dixie and Back | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

Few of them are quite so openly redneck as the Marvell Academy, a private elementary school that opened last year in two frame houses in the Arkansas Delta town of Marvell (pop. 1,916). Declared the school's founders, who are also members of the resurgent white Citizens'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Private Schools: The Last Refuge | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

Surgeon Thomas LaFarge also brought moments of wit to The Lampoon with his slogan "Forget Vietnam! See The Meat-Cleaver Man!" and his description and catalogue of mutilations that can spare American youth "the indignities of conscription." Similarly revivifying was the poem inspired by Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy...

Author: By Deborah R. Waroff, | Title: The Lampoon | 5/7/1968 | See Source »

There is little real poetic content in her work, but enough to inspire Berry-man's vision of sexuality imprisoned by a tyranny of conscience. Enough, too, to make Mistress Bradstreet a valid foot note to the age of Milton and Marvell, the honorable inaugurator of American poetry, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Benevolent Phantom | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

Walking down Athens Street in a grey topcoat, flanked by a worried tutee and an energetic black dog, William Alfred doesn't look like a playwright. The subject is Andrew Marvell. "Read 'The Garden' again," he says to the tutee who scampers off in the direction of Leverett Towers. He...

Author: By Joseph A. Kanon, | Title: Grendel, Fedora, and a Big Fat Hit: William Alfred is Still 'Just Folks' | 7/5/1966 | See Source »

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