Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brown man is fighting a reputation of middle-class mediocrity. He wants to be Ivy but he has nothing distinctively Ivy to offer, He Cannot be typed beyond "urban" and "conservative." He passes his drinking tradition on to Dartmouth, his "second-choice college" reputation to U. Va. and he dares not rest on the small college theme of friendliness...
...three-room cabin clinging to the side of Powell Mountain in Cracker's Neck, Va., Bessie Dickenson sat at her quilting one night last week while her husband, Van Buren ("Dave") Dickenson, gaunt and sick at 72, listened to the radio. Suddenly Dave called out: "Bessie, listen to this. It says one of those boys has changed his mind and is coming home. I just know it's Ed." Said Bessie: "I just know it's Ed too, Dave." Later she mused, "Of course, I'll bet every mother listening thought the same thing...
GEORGIA B. WHALEY Hampton, Va...
...aluminum trailer truck rumbled into Fredericksburg, Va. one day this week and parked near an elementary school. Outside it looked like any ordinary truck, but the inside was unusual: it contained a small, well-stocked art gallery. The truck was Virginia's new "artmobile," the U.S.'s first art gallery on wheels. Its purpose: to bring great art to people who ordinarily never set foot inside a museum...
...Tenneson, 21, told reporters, "If I could talk to him for ten minutes, I could at least make a dent in that kind of thinking." Mr. & Mrs. Van Buren Dickenson, the parents of Corporal Edward Dickenson, 23, sat in stunned sadness in their home in Cracker's Neck, Va. like a study in American gothic. "I won't believe anything except that my boy wants to return home," said Mrs. Dickenson...