Word: olden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Aileen Olden, Barnard Hall house resident, yesterday denied recent charges by SDS that a racist administrative decision blocked black women from giving a dorm party last October. She said the charges involved a minor incident that was satisfactorily settled last semester...
...Olden, herself black, said that Long planned a floor party in Barnard last October to be held from midnight to 5 a.m. the morning before mid-term examinations...
Writing about the olden days, Laura Wilder quickly snares all the incipient "how-to" book readers in her audience. A half dozen or so pages into Little House in the Big Woods, she is telling how Pa made a smokehouse out of a hollow tree to cure venison. She also describes cheese making, sod breaking, sugaring off, housebuilding (log, sod and frame), threshing, ice cutting and a hundred other practical matters. She offers assorted facts on such subjects as homestead law, horse breaking and how to manage a hoop skirt. The odd word may mystify (pieplant, claim shack, prove...
RELEVANCE should be administered in small doses, especially in historical novels. It's not that I mind relevance, it's just that it can be pretty depressing to discover that people in the olden days are supposed to have had those same old problems which had no solution then and have no solution now. The chief virtue of The Wreckage of Agathon is that it avoids the obvious temptations of easy relevance in favor of a more complex view of the nature of good and evil. John Gardner attempts great things in his novel, but succeeds only in creating...
According to Eileen Olden, House Resident of Barnard Hall, the gunman entered Barnard through Briggs Hall at about 9 p. m., and after asking a girl for a nonexistent "Sherri," forced her to accompany him while he prowled the third and fourth floors...