Word: witte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slick tone for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Now it turns out that all along Avedon has been disgusted by the affluent America he celebrates. To register his revulsion, he got together with James Baldwin (who was his old classmate in The Bronx's prestigious De Witt Clinton High School) to plan a work that would "expose the corruption in American life. I am fascinated by decadent faces." Baldwin's brief text is oddly irrelevant, obviously hasty, too often drawn on by his sheer flow of language into shrill overstatement: "No one is happy here...
Margin Time. The family lived in a Bronx apartment house, where "we were often the only Gentiles." Frank went to De Witt Clinton High School on the 12:30-to-5 p.m. shift, did no work, barely got through, and had no intention of going to college. He was drafted into the Army in 1943, where he noticed that "the people who had the best jobs were people who had been to college." This sparked in him a sudden passion for higher learning. After the war, he applied to 40 colleges, asking them to gamble on him despite his high...
Away from the Sea. Steadily expanded since World War I by the Army Engineers, the inland waterways today link together an amazing amount of the nation (see chart). In the East they include De Witt Clinton's historic New York State Barge Canal, the Hudson River, and the sheltered coastal route that amateur sailors take south to Florida. In the U.S. heartland, the Mississippi and its tributaries afford unbroken passage from Pittsburgh west to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and from Minneapolis south to the Gulf. In the Far West, locks built into the McNary and Bonneville dams allow riverboats...
...LYNDON DE WITT Teheran, Iran...
Chris Ohiri of Harvard leads the league in scoring with six goals. Yale's Charley Frank is second with three. Dartmouth's Bebris, Penn's Witt, Cornell's Cohen, Columbia's Anyaawu, Brown's Nielson, and Yale's Schaefer each have...