Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simplify matters immeasurably--and, for those who have read the book, perhaps intolerably--the narrative alternates between the two poles of politics and insanity--the public and private responses of modern man. As literary marriages go, it seems the successful offspring of an alliance between George Orwell and Virginia Woolf...
...survey of G.O.P. hopes, Phillips dismisses some areas as places where "Democratic trends correlate with stability and decay (New England, New York City, Michigan, West Virginia and San Francisco-Berkeley)." Certain heavily urbanized states, according to Phillips, "are no longer necessary for national Republican victory." Urban populations in some regions are static or declining, and presumably Phillips believes that the city will soon belong to the blacks, who are either Democrats or uninterested in exercising their franchises...
...VIRGINIA U. PROUT...
Married. Alec Waugh, 71, British novelist, biographer and world traveler, who for years labored in the shadow of young brother Evelyn, finally achieved fame and fortune of his own with the 1956 publication of the bestselling Island in the Sun; and Virginia Sorensen, 57, U.S. author of children's books (Curious Missie, Plain Girl, Miracles on Maple Hill); he for the third time, she for the second; in a short civil ceremony; in Gibraltar...
Before his labor arbitration career, he worked in West Virginia training unemployed miners for work in a furniture factory. He received his B.S. degree from Earlham College, and has also studied at Columbia and Pennsylvania...