Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sable's partners and opponents in crime. As Brenda, Patty Woo moves gracefully from the woman abandoned by her man to the tough Mae Westish cookie who is determined to take her revenge. When Sable introduces her to the Harlstons as a student at a finishing school near Oxford, the jealous Brenda snaps "But I'm not finished yet." Larry Schneider's gutsy characterization of Harry Mercer is not quite so well developed as Woo's, but with his hardbitten face and sly movements, Schneider fits the image of the life of crime personified...
Died. Anthony Crosland, 58, British Foreign Secretary and one of the Labor movement's leading theorists of democratic socialism; of a stroke; in Oxford, England. The son of a senior civil servant, Crosland went to Oxford, where he earned a first in politics, philosophy and economics. While serving in the House of Commons and in various Labor governments, he wrote several books, including The Future of Socialism (1956), which suggested that class had replaced capitalism as the appropriate target of socialists. After his appointment to Prime Minister James Callaghan's Cabinet last April, Crosland became the chairman...
...Rhodes scholar who earned an M.A. in foreign affairs at Oxford after his Annapolis years, the Chicago-born Turner has logged an impressive career both at sea and on land. Most of his ship time has been served aboard destroyers; after receiving his two rear-admiral stars in 1970, he commanded a cruiser-destroyer flotilla that stalked the Soviets' Mediterranean squadron. The following year he went to the Pentagon as the Navy's director of systems analysis...
...hand-tinted legend has displaced the coruscating verse-a fault, says this terse, canny biography, of the poet himself. According to Alex de Jonge, a Fellow and Tutor of New College, Oxford, Les Fleurs du Mai is "Pilgrim 's Progress in reverse," and so was Baudelaire's life...
Exotic Externals. The roots of Naropa go back to 1959, when Chogyam fled the Communist takeover of Tibet and went to England to study Western culture at Oxford. Once there, he decided to wear Western clothes, to "do away with exotic externals, which were too fascinating to students in the West." The next step: marriage to a 16-year-old English girl. At that heresy against celibacy, his followers in the United Kingdom rebelled, and Chogyam decided to try America...