Word: pritchett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feverishly excited season. But the last few games saw humiliating, lop-sided upsets for a mediocre season, enlivened by a now-familiar discussion of the merits of collegiate football in general. Barry Wood's What Price Football? came out to answer, among other arguments, the suggestion of Henry Pritchett, President of the Carnegie Foundation that football be abandoned in favor of horseracing...
George Orwell was a pilgrim who hated progress and found an empty shrine at the end of a blind alley called socialism. Famed British Critic V.S. Pritchett has called him "the conscience of his generation." An extremely troubled conscience it was, and Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier does much to explain...
Author Sansom has learned the lesson of V. S. Pritchett that the proper study of British fiction is class. One of the best stories in this collection is set in Venice and is strongly reminiscent of theVenetian episode in Lady Chatterley's Lover. Like D. H. Lawrence, Sansom plays his defunctive music undersea on the G string of sex, but class composes the melody. In this case, a gondolier rashly falls in love with a beautiful English girl whose snobbery is so intense that it simply does not occur to her that a mere gondolier could aspire...
Last week the first of the six, Joe P. Pritchett, 31, Exalted Cyclops of a local chapter of the Klan, stood trial for mayhem in circuit court in Birmingham. After hearing the evidence, an all-Southern, all-white jury deliberated 40 minutes, returned a verdict of guilty. Alabama-born Judge Alta King sentenced him to 20 years' imprisonment-the maximum permissible under Alabama law. "This is one of the worst things ever to come before my bench," said the judge. "I have found nothing in the testimony to justify less than the limit...
...week's end four whites were arrested. One was a construction worker named Joe Pritchett, the Exalted Cyclops of a local Ku Klux Klan. In the shack where the men had taken Aaron, police found stacks of White Citizens' Council literature-and a Bible. Why had they picked on Aaron? Said one: "We just wanted some nigger at random...