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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even then it was hard to find an authentic New Hampshire accent, because the state was populated almost exclusively by sturdy real estate salesmen and bluff, honest motel owners, most of whom had emigrated recently from New Jersey. I suggested that the advanceman look up my friend the town clerk, who pumped gas and sold dog licenses and could, in theory, write out a permit that would allow you to bury a body on your land. The town clerk was a good, brisk talker, and although no gossip, he was the preferred source of reliable information on town affairs...
...worker's almost total indifference to this verified illegality is a fascinating phenomenon, one rarely analysed in terms of labor injustices and ripe Conway's analysis falls short, leaving the reader with simply a sense of frustration. Stevens employees are torn between contradicting impulses of self-interest and blind sentalmentalism, their vision of a happy past and a strong faith that the future will be better. Stevens workers are bewildered, complacent, and left to die slowly with brown lung disease and blank disillusionment, but Conway doesn...
...small town textile mill, organizing picnics, handing out holiday bonuses, paternally providing jobs, money and security. Ironically, their gasping and wheezing testimonies of Stevens unjustices are dominated by reflections of their mill town's golden past. The reader is frustrated by their reluctance to act, almost as much as by Conway's failure to articulate the feelings that have keep Stevens workers from shaping a better life...
...elect our presidents not because we know what they stand for, but because of how well we think they stand: Are they leaders? Do they have moral courage? Can they instill trust in the people? But national candidates, with their image advisers and make-up men, are matched almost step for step by big city mayoral contenders, who play at being gruff or Irish or aggressive or "old town," while hiding issue stances, when they have them, safely away from the prying eyes of the electorate...
...Cambridge, for the last ten years, substance has ruled. The voters in this small city split fundamentally over two basic issues--continued controls on rents and regulation of condominium conversion. For more than a decade, almost every election flyer has featured discussions of those issues. Factions line up on each side, clearly defining their stands--the Rent Control Task Force boosts tenant's rights, The Cambridge Home Owners and Taxpayers Association demands that everyone on its slate of candidates vote against rent control. And the system works. For ten years, liberals have held tenuous majorities on the council, just enough...