Word: rufus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black boots, canary yellow britches, dark blue melton coat and velvet hunting cap, Jackie Kennedy, astride a calico hunting horse named Rufus, plunged into the fox-hunting season with gleeful energy. So caught up was Jackie in her favorite sport that she missed a White House meeting with the patrons of Washington's Gallery of Modern Art (the President pinch-hit), and daily chased the hounds across the misty Virginia fields near Upperville, where the Kennedys are building a ranch house costing approximately $90,000. During one three-hour hunt, the First Lady chivalrously dismounted to open a gate...
...elusive semi-potential foe by contacting them through the CRIMSON. We have taken this whole affair as a terrible affront, the Brown club having established Ivy Ieague tiddlywinks in 1793. In the first match, our team, led by Roger Williams Brown, easily defeated John Harvard's bastard grand-nephew, Rufus. Our predominance in the field has not been contested since...
Angel's Talent. Agee met Father Flye at St. Andrew's School near Sewanee, Tenn., where the young Rufus (as Agee was then called) went shortly after the death of his own father. To the teacher-priest, Rufus seemed a sort of wonderful, shy, gifted hillbilly. For once the priestly vocation and the artist's vocation-often hostile in direction-met in understanding. Few sons have written to their natural fathers as James Agee wrote to Father Flye. Such trust, love and the confidence in being understood seldom surmount the walls of consanguinity. The letters are also...
...letters begin with the boy's notes from Phillips Exeter, where young Rufus had gone on a scholarship. He is reading and liking Beau Geste, Elizabeth and Her German Garden, finding Sinclair Lewis "turning rancid'' in Elmer Gantry, moving on to the discovery of the "terrific" Ernest Hemingway (who does, however, earn a boy's stern moral disapproval as "one of the crowd of degenerate Americans who settled . . . in Paris after the war"). Dreiser's English is "bum," and John Dos Passos rouses a boy's puritanism with the "unalleviatedly filthy" Manhattan Transfer...
...misunderstanding that he believes America to be. But in Another Country this is projected on a wholly inadequate fictional frame: six characters in search of love and self-knowledge in a Dostoevskian substratum of Greenwich Village. Each has been chosen as a representative of melting-pot America. Negro Rufus Scott, a jazz musician from Harlem, has never been able to learn his identity as a man because he could never forget his identity as a Negro. His sister Ida battles the white world too, but ends by yielding to the love of her brother's best friend, an Irish...