Word: talese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Frank O'Connor (real name: Michael O'Donovan), 62, consummate Irish storyteller; of a heart attack; in Dublin. The son of a Cork laborer, O'Connor got a schooling of sorts in the Irish Republican Army and Dublin jails during the '20s, before turning out...
Died. Mari Susette Sandoz, 68, folklorist of the U.S. Great Plains; of cancer; in Manhattan. Though she lived and wrote in Greenwich Village for the past 20 years, Mari Sandoz knew much of the Plains firsthand, as a Nebraska sod-buster's daughter in the 1900s who had "seen...
Tales of Two Villages
Goofing Off? More freedom is something that some students cannot handle. After a period of free study, one Pomona student reported: "Well, I've learned one thing: I don't have any self-discipline." A Stanford student objects to dropping grades, contends: "There are enough students of little...
El Diario firmly believes it has a duty to promote the welfare of Puerto Ricans, and it goes about the job unceasingly. The paper's 50-man, largely Puerto Rican editorial staff spends half its time listening to readers' complaints of mistreatment. A converted city bus owned by...