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1982 Grammy Awards

Record of the Year“Rosanna,” TotoAlbum of the YearToto IV, Toto (Columbia)Song of the Year“Always on My Mind,” Johnny Christopher, Mark James and Wayne Carson, songwritersBest New ArtistMen…

Harris, Barbara Clementine

(Encyclopedia) Harris, Barbara Clementine, 1930–2020, American Episcopal bishop, b. Philadelphia. An African American, Harris was active in the civil-rights movement in the 1960s (and remained active…

Kydland, Finn Erling

(Encyclopedia) Kydland, Finn Erling, 1943–, Norwegian economist, Ph.D Carnegie Mellon Univ., 1973. He has taught at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (since 1973),…

Nicholson, Ben

(Encyclopedia) Nicholson, Ben, 1894–1982, English painter; son of Sir William Nicholson. Nicholson's geometric abstractions of landscapes and still lifes are discreetly colored and lyrically…

ballad

(Encyclopedia) ballad, in literature and music, short, narrative poem or song usually relating a single, dramatic event. Two forms of the ballad are often distinguished—the folk ballad, dating from…

Gallegos, Rómulo

(Encyclopedia) Gallegos, RómuloGallegos, Rómulorōˈm&oomacr;lō gäyāˈgōs [key], 1884–1969, Venezuelan novelist and statesman. Gallegos lived in Spain in voluntary exile from the Venezuelan…

Antioch College

(Encyclopedia) Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, Ohio; coeducational; chartered 1852, opened 1853. Horace Mann, Antioch's first president, envisioned a program stressing the development not only of…

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison 2002 Deaths

Barbara Grizzuti HarrisonAge: 67 writer who chronicled her 12 years as a Jehovah's Witness in the highly acclaimed book Visions of Glory. Died: Manhattan, April 24, 2002Leon HartG - LSigne…

Barbara LEE, Congress, CA (1946)

LEE Barbara , a Representative from California; born in El Paso, El Paso County, Tex., July 16, 1946; graduated from San Fernando High School, San Fernando, Calif., 1964; B.A., Mills College,…

Barbara BOXER, Congress, CA (1940)

Senate Years of Service: 1993-2017 Party: Democrat BOXER Barbara , a Senator and a Representative from California; born Barbara Levy in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., November 11, 1940; attended…