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Carol G. Hjortsberg, educator
Carol G. Hjortsberg, former head of Grace Episcopal Day School and author of a history of St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Annapolis, died March 27 from complications of diabetes at Baltimore Washington Medical Center. She was 69. "Carol was very...
Tags: Catonsville, Diabetes, Smithsonian Institution, Ellicott City, Christianity
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Happy scandalous anniversary to Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl'
On this date, March 25, in 1957, Allen Ginsberg helped make literary history. That's because 520 copies of his poem "Howl" were seized by U.S. Customs agents on charges of obscenity. Ginsberg and his publisher, City Lights, would fight those charges --...
Tags: Poetry, Authors, Google+, Book, Judges
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More real-life 'Downton Abbey': Notes from a life 'in service'
In a blog post last week, I linked to an obit for Florence Wadlow, a real-life Mrs. Patmore. Afterward, I received a fascinating email from a reader named Trevor Middleton. Because "Downton Abbey" seems to be all anyone can talk about today (Did something...
Tags: CNN (tv network), World War I (1914-1918), Downton Abbey (tv program)
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A tutorial in love
I was no Don Juan. Nineteen years old, and I'd yet to ask a girl out on a date. Sometimes friends tried to arrange something. As when Tom and Joan set me up with her girlfriend Mish for a double date at a beach party in Cedar Lake, Ind. Nervous but...
Tags: Music, Maureen O'Hara, Entertainment
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Taos, the feminine side
TAOS, N.M. — As surprising as it may seem to many Americans, statehood isn't necessarily something dating back a couple of centuries. In fact, the last two of the Lower 48 — Arizona and New Mexico — became states only in the 1900s...Tags: Artists, Arts and Culture, Arts, Museums
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Shulamith Firestone dies at 67: wrote feminist classic 'The Dialectic of Sex'
Shulamith Firestone, whose 1970 book "The Dialectic of Sex" became a feminist classic with its calls for a drastic rethinking of women's roles in the bearing and raising of children, was found dead Tuesday in her New York City apartment. She was 67. A...Tags: Authors, New York City, Arts and Culture, The New York Times, Feminism
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Banned in Bel Air
When a book flies off the shelves by the millions within a month of publication and zooms to the top of the New York Times best-seller list, it's safe to assume that whatever its literary merit (or lack thereof), it probably is not a good candidate for...
Tags: Censorship, Fiction, Arts and Culture, The New York Times, French Literature
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Go ahead and indulge — it's Taormina, Italy
Special to the Los Angeles TimesI am sitting on the balcony of the Grand Hotel Timeo eating almond-flavored granita (a kind of Italian sherbet) for breakfast and thinking about Lady Chatterley. More accurately, I am thinking about the real-life inspiration for Lady Chatterley —...Tags: Tangerine, Personal Service, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Marlon Brando, Health
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Esquire, adding fiction ebooks, goes back to the future
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Barney Rosset dies at 89; publisher fought censorship
Barney Rosset, the renegade founder of Grove Press who fought groundbreaking legal battles against censorship and introduced American readers to such provocative writers as Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean Genet, died Tuesday in...Tags: Samuel Beckett, Economy, Business and Finance, Freedom of the Press, Tom Stoppard, Jean Genet
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Editorial: Libraries walk a tightrope on porn
When a homeless man was accused of fondling himself in the Laguna Beach Public Library, the ensuing outcry was less about the alleged behavior than about the pornography the man was viewing on the Internet at the time. Some people had never realized...Tags: Pornography, Libraries, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Breast Cancer
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Ken Russell dies at 84; director of 'Tommy,' 'Lisztomania'
![Ken Russell, the often controversial British director known for his flamboyant visual style in films such as "The Devils," "Altered States" and the Who's rock opera "Tommy," has died. He was 84.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-11/66379812-28203814-187105.jpg "Ken Russell, the often controversial British director known for his flamboyant visual style in films such as "The Devils,\" \"Altered States\" and the Who's rock opera \"Tommy,\" has died. He was 84.")
Ken Russell, the often controversial British director known for his flamboyant visual style in films such as "The Devils," "Altered States" and the Who's rock opera "Tommy," has died. He was 84.
Russell, who lived in Lymington in southern England, died...Tags: Isadora Duncan, David Lean, Science, Documentary (genre), Alan Bates
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