Word: carolers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Waiting for what? Frequently for something bad to happen, or for a feeling, perception or mood to catch up with something bad that has happened. The stagnant '70s had their share of grim talebearers, notably Joyce Carol Oates, who attracted an unusually wide audience for a short-story writer. Reading the bulk of her work is like taking an unblinking look through the files of a psychiatric social worker. The Dead, her contribution to Prize Stories of the Seventies, follows a neurasthenic woman writer named Ilena through a declining marriage, a feverish love affair and literary success. The first...
Many immigrants live in the United States for years, never doubting their eventual return to their native countries. But for some, the pressures of raising children who become steeped in American culture and prosperity delay their return. James and Carol Keaty point to their son, who wears a Patriots cap, and say they intend to return to their native Dublin in ten or fifteen years. James Keaty's reasons for immigration are hardly specific--"I came to see if I liked the place and I'm still here"--but he expresses a very specific purpose for his naturalization: "to vote...
...have that when they went to public school." At Palisades Village School, students write work contracts with their teachers. Parents have much greater control over what is learned and taught. Old-fashioned or newfashioned, neighborhood schools offer the possibility of increased parental involvement. "Like many other mothers, I work," Carol Ducy explained. "It would be impractical to drive many miles across town to the school where my child has been bused." Even though places like Palisades Village tend to drain bright students from the public school system, Roberta Weintraub, president of the Los Angeles Board of Education concedes: "When...
...Carol S. Dillard Tyler, Texas...
...Chapman outside the Dakota. Said one, "He just seemed like a really nice, genuine, honest person who was there because he admired John." Others, like WPLJ Disc Jockey Carol Miller, who lives near the Dakota, had noticed Chapman and thought "he looked strange. He was older than the kids who hung around there." When Miller first heard that Lennon had been shot, Chapman's face flashed in her mind...