Word: olsen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into yours and seem to know you. They are kind, sad, wearied eyes that might weep but for the hint of humor around the mouth. Passionate conviction mixed with despair rest for a photographic moment on her face, one side in shadow, the other exposed by the sunlight. Tillie Olsen has seen...
Gene Kelly was among the choices for Man of the Year but because of his schedule, he was forced to turn it down, Dale Olsen, Kelly's press agent said yesterday. "Gene would have loved to come but he just couldn't," Olsen said...
...Lois Ames, a close friend and estate-designated biographer, make it quite clear that to be on the poet's mailing list could mean finding oneself embroiled in a passionate postal love affair. "Dearest dear De," "Dear One," "Dear Phil Baby," "Dear Wonderful Nolan!" "Dear wonderful lovely Tillie Olsen" are typical salutations. She lavished compliments, flattery and secrets, and expected to be repaid in kind. Like her poems, her letters were uninhibited pieces of herself offered " in deep fear of rejection...
...there. A few weeks ago in Denver, the Third Annual Conference on Alternative State and Local Public Policies attracted some 400 electoral strategists, leftist policy intellectuals, would-be officeholders and labor organizers. The old New Left now expresses itself in a number of local forms. A man named David Olsen founded the San Francisco-based New School for Democratic Management, where workers are taught how to run their own businesses. People from the movement have revived interest in such unglamorous electoral jobs as county assessor, state treasurer and tax commissioner. Sam Brown, an antiwar leader who became state treasurer...
...apolitical drifter, Ray ("Cat") Olsen, 23, held ten hostages in a Manhattan branch of New York's Bankers Trust Co. for eight hours, demanded that authorities release Patty Hearst and imprisoned members of the Symbionese Liberation Army and pay him $10 million in gold. Result: Olsen gave up and freed all hostages...