Word: wife
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where to now? Last week the University of Texas announced that Rostow and his wife, a professor of government, will be on its faculty as of February. Also slated to join them is another new prof: Lyndon B. Johnson...
...over, Dickey enrolled at Vanderbilt to study philosophy and English. After teaching English at Rice and the University of Florida, he became an advertising copywriter in New York, then in Atlanta. In August 1961, to devote himself to poetry, he quit his job and supported his wife and two sons on small family savings and welfare checks. Six months later, they left for a year in Europe, courtesy of a $5,000 Guggenheim fellowship. Temporary terms as poet-in-residence at Reed, San Fernando Valley State and Wisconsin, and as successor to Stephen Spender as poetry consultant to the Library...
...student walked into an art class he was teaching at a New Brunswick community center with a plaster-impregnated bandage marketed by the local pharmaceutical company, Johnson & Johnson. She asked Segal whether he thought it could be used as an art form. Segal took the stuff home, had his wife wrap him up like a mummy, and almost tore out his hair getting it off again. But the experience turned his life around. "I discovered marvelous things going on-elements of bone structure that come through in the plaster...
...male of Motel is, beneath the plaster, his fellow artist and friend Lucas Samaras. The withdrawn girl holding a kitten is his daughter Rena. He even uses himself as a model. For a man with his technique, this is hard to do-but he achieves it by putting his wife to work under his detailed direction...
Alan Bates plays Bok-a handyman, a fixer of broken things. His home is the shtetl, a rural Jewish village in 1911 Russia. It is a time of pogroms and malignant rumors of Jews who murder Christians as part of their religious rites. Bok, possessed of a barren, faithless wife (Carol White), abandons his emotions, his conscience and his home. His destination is the ancient Russian Orthodox city of Kiev, where he promptly sends himself to hell by passing as a gentile. In scenes that seem to have emerged from the mainstream of Russian literature, Lebedev (Hugh Griffith), a rabid...