Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ghost cannot touch or feel, grow tired or hungry. His human form and personality persist for a few weeks until he forgets the substance of his life-first, perhaps, the sound of a subway train, then his address, finally his name. The ghost, who was a professor named Michael Morgan until his wife (as he claims) poisoned him. vows noisily to cling to life. Then he realizes in terror that Rebeck is right-he has already forgotten Swinburne...
...novel progresses. Morgan slowly comes to accept death, while Rebeck once again accepts the fact of life. The plot tends to unravel, rather than unwind, but even the spectral characters are vivid, and their collisions are often touching and funny-particularly when women are involved. Morgan entwines with a shade named Laura, who has left her body behind with relief, while Rebeck meets a sensible Brooklyn widow, who tries to lead him back to reality, if that's what Brooklyn can be called...
...picked up an initial list of some 15 names from the local Times stringer, spent the next 48 hours traveling around by himself interviewing Birmingham citizens. City officials say he did not interview them. "Why, we never even knew the man was in town," says City Commissioner James W. Morgan, who acts as Birmingham's mayor. "If we had, we would have been delighted to take him around to see both the good and the bad." The moderate leaders of the city's business community also complain that Salisbury snubbed them, argue that the extreme racists cited...
Last week Salisbury's objectivity and the Times's responsibility were put to a legal test by the city of Birmingham. In the Federal District Court for North Alabama, City Commissioners James W. Morgan, Eugene ("Bull") Connor and J. T. Waggoner filed a $1,500,000 libel suit against the Times and Salisbury, charged that the articles "falsely inferred and insinuated" that the city commissioners "encouraged racial hatred . . . and oppression of the Negro race...
...Distant Trumpet, by Paul Morgan. The Southwest comes vividly and impressively alive in this fictional reconstruction of the Indian wars...