Word: swansea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time he left school at 16, Thomas had decided that he was a poet and that his art would help him escape his native Swansea, Wales, and "the smug darkness of a provincial town." After one of his poems appeared in a London newspaper, he received a complimentary letter from Pamela Hansford Johnson, a bank clerk and aspiring poet who would later become a well-known novelist. A correspondence developed, during which Thomas assumed the roles of mentor, critic and romantic outlaw...
...Swansea, Mass., a boy suffering from AIDS was allowed to attend his eighth-grade class earlier this month, and only half a dozen of the school's 630 students were kept home by parents. But many parents bitterly railed against "the fancy talk" of experts who use vague terms like "shared bodily fluids" and speak of "probabilities" and "percentages" instead of giving yes or no answers...