Word: townes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...road, giddy with liberation, dancing and skipping with sheer joy. Relieved of the worry of whether or not the car would run, leaving that big expensive piece-of-shit-machine behind and setting off for a new town together as total strangers, we were free. She asked my name; I told her my first name and asked...
...have completely given up any plans for working at Suffolk Downs." Yovicsin said in a prepared statement released yesterday morning just before he left town for a speaking tour...
...home-town high school, a teacher was castigated for recommending Salinger's celebrated Catcher in the Rye as the basis of a book report. And a department head in southern Maine refused to allow Sophocles' Oedipus Rex to be taught...
...STATE OF MAINE has never been exactly famous for being in the vanguard of secondary-school education. It was not long ago that the spotlight of ridicule and contempt fell on the eastern coastal town of Blue Hill when school officials prevented valedictorian Russell Salsbury from delivering his prepared valedictory address at graduation exercises. The reason given was that the young man's ideas "sounded pink" and seemed "dangerous." The incident received much publicity both inside and outside the state; I myself, as a Maine native, entered publicly into the fray. As it turned out, young Salsbury came to Harvard...
During the last academic year the focus shifted to the western part of the: state, specifically to the town of Bethel and Telstar Regional High School, where a spirited controversy raged. This time the trouble sprang from three novels chosen by Tom Marmo of Telstar's English department for his course called "Youth Through the Ages...