Word: putney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might have been a scene from the activist 1960s. State police were called out to prevent violence as angry students jeered after being ordered to leave the premises. But unlike the protesters of the Viet Nam days, the demonstrators who struck last month at tiny Windham College in Putney, Vt., were battling to keep their school open, not close it down. They failed. After a long period of financial scrambling, the once prospering 27-year-old school was some $6 million in debt and unable to pay salaries or even its heating bills. Enrollment at the modern campus, designed...
...book is a biography of the noted author T.S. Garp, from his conception in the hospital where his anonymous soldier father, tail gunner Garp, is slowly dying and his independent mother Jenny is working as a nurse, to his assassination on the mats of the Steering School, his Putney-like alma matter, and where he serves as wrestling coach. He is shot by an Ellen Jamesian as he tweets his whistle and boys grapple around...
...truth, no matter how solemnly he promised. There was always the wink, the knowing aside. About Dylan there were only rumors--his face is horribly disfigured from the motorcycle crash, he's in Nashville, no I mean Jerusalem, did you know he sends his kids to the Putney School? And did you know there's a Bob Dylan movie coming out, something better than Don't Look Back, the film of the '65 British tour he withdrew from circulation? Rumors all, kid--don't believe a word of it--and get away from me, you bother...
...amazing as it may seem, Radcliffe's first place finish was a reality last weekend at Green Mountain College in Putney, Vermont...
Robert Downey's Putney Swope (Ch. 4, 1:00 a.m., Sat.) seemed daring and outrageous when it came out in 1969, at the height of white paranoia about blacks; now, it's just offensive. The censors have undoubtedly cut this one to shreds, so none of the good things you may have heard about this movie are likely to be confirmed...