Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...salaries of Harvard's teaching fellows will be boosted by 17 to 25 per cent this year, Dean Ford announced over the weekend...
...salary increases, stated in terms of teaching loads called "fifths," are: for senior teaching fellows, an increase from $1200 to $1400 per fifth; for junior teaching fellows, an increase from...
...mattered little that nobody really knew what Fortas thought about the films. The court judgment involving them was one of the many per curiam decisions, which do not require Justices to write their opinions. In an obscenity case, what is often at issue is not the merits or demerits of the film, but the manner in which it was seized, the legality of the prior court action, and the definition of obscenity in the individual situation. Definitions have been vague ever since the landmark Roth decision of 1957, eight years before Fortas was appointed an Associate Justice. That decision established...
...titled The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show. The format includes a twist: in one segment each week, she will interview a celebrity. But the real get-the-guest free-for-all should be ABC's Don Rickles Show. Rickles, the insult comic, will knock off a guest or two per weekly half-hour. ABC will also try TV's first weekly book musical, That's Life. For continuity, the one-hour show will have a regular star, Robert Morse, and a continuing theme, modern marriage...
...then, Sheed was enrolled in Downside, a Benedictine prep school in England somewhat resembling Sopworth in The Blacking Factory. Eventually, he took a degree in history at Oxford, spent a year with his father's relatives in Sydney, Australia ("more eccentricity per square foot than anywhere"), and settled in Greenwich Village as a writer. His first novel, A Middle Class Education (1961), earned him a small reputation that has grown slowly but steadily. Last year his fourth novel, Office Politics, was nominated for a National Book Award. Now, at 37, he is justly rated as one of the nation...