Word: porter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Penn came back from its crippling loss of tailback Porter Shreve and downed Lafayette...
Penn recovered from the loss of tailback Porter Shreve and beat Lafayette, 14 to 0. (Shreve was injured two weeks...
Penn, in its second year of single wing, almost collapsed last Wednesday when tallback Porter Shreve contracted an injury which will sideline him for the season. Losing him is like Harvard losing Ravenel last year...
...notoriety, Lady Chatterley's Lover is, essentially, just an extravagant sentimentalization of sex and nature through which D. H. Lawrence passionately protested against industrial civilization and Victorian prudery. But despite what Katherine Anne Porter has called its "imbecilic harmlessness," the book still draws devout support, as was shown during last year's obscenity trial in Britain when Lawrence's four-letter words and what the prosecutor called his "reverence for man's genitals" became great crusading issues. Certified by the court as not obscene, Lady Chatterley last week came onstage as a play (at a private...
...reading your review of Miss Porter's Ship of Fools [July 28], I was struck by a similarity of titles remembered from long gone college days. In checking back, sure enough there was Das Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools, 1494) whose author, Sebastian Brant, died in 1521. It would be interesting to know if this allegory played any part in influencing Miss Porter's ideas...