Word: bona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main stream." He is director of a substantial fiefdom--but one very much apart from the rest of Harvard in time and in its basic assumptions and standards. He was a House master--but of the non-resident, catch all House. He graduated from Harvard, gaining a bona fide Ivy League background--but at the age of 31. And the particular patch of miry clay from which the Lord drew Crooks--a poor Appalachian coal-mining town in western Pennsylvania--seems, years later, more and more lovely, not the horrible pit Crooks once...
Atheneum. $12.50. It is 1600, and English Captain John Blackthorne washes up in Japan during a failed attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Blackthorne is no simple salt but a bona fide Saturday-afternoon-at-the-movies hero with a "brooding, explosive violence that always lurked below his quiet exterior." His strength is as the strength of ten, and his brain is not bad either; he speaks English, Spanish, Dutch and Latin fluently. Hardly has he learned to say Konnichiwa (Good day) before Blackthorne is up to his clavicle in inscrutable Eastern intrigues...
...case is expected to center on the validity of the zoning board's 4-1 decision to grant the permit to deVellis, with the plaintiffs contesting that board member Paul A. Gargano, who voted with the majority to grant deVellis the permit, is not a "bona fide" resident of Cambridge...
...wasn't leaving so quickly. Two rides still hadn't gotten me out of the park and I walked through most of Haight Ashbury before I got my first bona fide ride. It was a 62 Chevy pick up, that ran like it had tin cans for pistons but it was driven by a guy who knew just how to ease those fragile parts just one more time around. He was a friendly guy with a beard that ran off of his chin the same way the wires must have run off his distributor cap loose and tangled. He took...
Like most immigrants before them, the Vietnamese are sad about the life they have left behind and apprehensive about what lies ahead in America. "We are getting bona fide refugees without anything or anybody," says INS Official Don Day at Pendleton. "I never know what will happen to me, only what has happened to me," mourned Hoan Lac, 39, a psychotherapist, who cried softly as she rocked her two-year-old child. "I have many friends in this country, but I have lost their addresses. I had to leave Viet Nam in 50 minutes." Pham An Thanh, 40, once...