Word: merton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confided to a reporter from his Omaha high school newspaper: "It's just a hobby." But at the urging of Actress Dorothy Brando, who was then raising Baby Marlon, young Henry Fonda had joined the Omaha Community Playhouse and soon had the leading role in Merton of the Movies. Over the next half century, his "hobby" took him to Hollywood and well beyond, but his heart remained in Omaha. In 1955, along with Daughter Jane Fonda, who was then making her acting debut, he starred in an Omaha production of The Country Girl that raised money for the playhouse...
NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel ∙ The Girl I Left Behind, Jane O'Reilly ∙ Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong ∙ Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙ Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers ∙ Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙ Wayward Reporter: The Life of A.J. Liebling, Raymond Sokolov...
...Tocqueville was always our first reading in Social Sciences 136," Riesman said. "Robert Merton said, 'We stand on the shoulders of giants' and Tocqueville was a giant. And there is something of a political connection between us. He was a liberal, he believed in equality, and he liked America and saw it as the future...
NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel ∙ Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong ∙ Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙ The Girl I Left Behind, Jane O'Reilly ∙ The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Mark Amory ∙ Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙ Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers
NONFICTION: American Dreams: Lost and Found, Studs Terkel Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong ∙Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙The Girl I Left Behind, Jane O'Reilly ∙The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Mark Amory ∙Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers