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Word: parkman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hundred curious spectators filled out the crowd of 1700 that stood around the Parkman bandstand to hear four anti-administration speeches. The speakers were continually interrupted by organized cheers of "Stay in Vietnam" and "We want victory" from the hecklers, who also sang the national anthem...

Author: By T. JAY Mathews, | Title: Anti-War Marchers Clash with Hecklers On Boston Common | 10/18/1965 | See Source »

...Mary Parkman Peabody had left her retired Episcopal bishop husband at home in Cambridge, donned sensible shoes, and gone south with three friends because, she said, "we decided that the Negroes needed help." On her first full day in town, Mrs. Peabody satin with Negroes at three segregated restaurants, a movie house and two motels. Next day, while sitting in at a segregated motel dining room with five Negroes, she was arrested for trespassing, being an undesirable guest, and conspiracy. Rather than post a $450 cash bond, Mrs. Peabody chose to spend two nights and two days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Debate in the Senate; A Meeting in Birmingham | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...Ernest Wright, Parkman Professor of Divinity, will work in Jordan this summer and next year to continue excavations he has been working on since 1956. He is digging at Shechem, site of the largest surviving temple of ancient Palestine. While there he will serve as director of the new American School of Archaeology in Jerusalem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Members of Faculty Awarded Fellowships to Study, Travel Abroad | 2/15/1964 | See Source »

...reader" of the bunch, and his essay successfully solves the problem which trips up many of his co-authors, making the careful analysis of particular poems yield insights into the writers' general concerns and methods. William Taylor (on his way to Wisconsin), who has the unenviable task of making Parkman's De Salle interesting, also succeeds where others fail, by skillfully combining description of the author's life and personality with intelligent evaluation of his book and its significance...

Author: By Michael W. Schwartz, | Title: Defense of Reading | 8/2/1962 | See Source »

...majority of these essays is the sense of what used to be called "vocation"; the three essays I singled out have it, and that makes them exciting. De Man is obviously fascinated by the overt mysticism of Yeats and the more furtive strangeness of Wordsworth; Taylor really sees in Parkman a figure whose own history made his writings something a great deal more interesting than mere chronicles; while Poirier is dedicated to a particular way of seeing and describing the workings of society and of individuals within it, and has formed a style all his own to express that vision...

Author: By Michael W. Schwartz, | Title: Defense of Reading | 8/2/1962 | See Source »

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