Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shaded town with its white clapboard houses: "Nowhere is decay or unwholesome poverty apparent." It is not apparent today, but there all the same are migrant labor camps, like the Cutchogue settlement for potato workers, whose four grey-painted World War I barracks house itinerant teams of Florida, Arkansas, Virginia or New Jersey farm hands. Isaiah, 35, the crew chief, is a diminutive Negro from Florida who tools around the camp in a late-model Cadillac, earning his daily bread from a 10% surcharge on each worker's hourly wage, plus his own earnings as a laborer. Unlike his predecessor...
Died. George D. Hay, 72, "the solemn ole judge," as he called himself who created Grand Ole Opry and made it the byword of country-western music; of a heart attack; in Virginia Beach Va. One day in 1927, Hay opened his program of hillbilly music over Nashville's WSM by saying, "For the past hour we have been listening to music taken largely from grand opera, but from now on we will present 'the Grand Ole Opry.' " The name stuck, and so did such stars as Eddy Arnold and Jim Reeves, who helped spread the Nashville...
...hope of the American theater has sometimes been placed in off-Broadway: in terms of sustained achievement this amounts to wistful thinking. Of the several playwrights who got their start off-Broadway, only Edward Albee has remotely fulfilled his promise. But since Virginia Woolf, his work has persistently dwindled in strength or substance. For one thing, Albee has developed a galloping case of adaptationitis, culling plots, characters and even dialogue from other writers' novels and plays. More surprisingly, he has lost the forked tongue that contributed so much to the venomous delight of Virginia Woolf. Albee unquestionably...
...year-old Lytton Strachey was loudly proclaiming that he and his fellow members of the Apostles, a small society of intellectuals, were about to inherit the earth. They never quite made it, but in their later guise as the Bloomsbury Group-Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Bertrand Russell, Virginia Woolf, Clive Bell among others-they did become the most powerful extra-Establishment gang that England has seen in this century...
...other three members of the fact-finding committee are Judge Simon H. Rifkind, Hyland G. Lewis, professor of Sociology at City College in Brooklyn, and Jefferson Barnes, dean of the University of Virginia Law School. No one from Columbia will sit on the committee...