Word: serb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Serb Bulger die? And did he die in vain? Most Harvard men celebrate their coming of age with quiet joy; Serb marked his 21st birthday by jumping off the Larz Anderson Bridge. (His body was recovered a week later by the Harvard Student Agencies Dredging Service, and condolences were sent to his grieving parents through the HSA Condolence Agency in a rhyming telegram: "We have bad news for you/Your son's short life is through/ To manhood he had grew/But himself in the river he threw...
...Croat and Slovene Bulgar, Serb's hard-working, immigrant parents, the tidings of their son's premature death--bitter as they were--came as no surprise. "Mr. Dirk told us not to meddle, Slovene," said Croat. "Serb's blood is on our hands." Only two weeks before, the Bulgars had received a letter from the HSA Birthday Cake Agency, warning them not to forget their parental obligations...
...Poor Serb," Slovene had moaned, "he would choke to death on a real American cake. My cousin at the Window Shop can make him something nice...
...took two employees of the restaurant to carry the cake to Serb's room in Claverly, and by the time they reached the dormitory, they were visibly tired. Two men in black trenchcoats stood in the doorway...
...tortured South Slavic soul," Yugoslavia's Ivo Andric, 69, won the Nobel Prize for literature. The second author-diplomat tapped in two years (1960 recipient: French Poet St. John Perse) and the first of his countrymen ever honored by the Swedish Academy, the unassuming, owlish-looking Serb was Yugoslav minister to Berlin when the Nazis invaded his country in 1941. Abandoning public life, he settled down to write a sweeping Bosnian trilogy, completed The Bridge on the Drina, a history-haunted hymn to his native land, while it was still under Nazi occupation. A onetime president of Yugoslavia...