Word: characterof
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After graduating from Harvard in 1978,concentrating in Japanese art history, Goldenearned a Master's in Japanese history at Columbiaand then worked in Tokyo. It was after his returnfrom Tokyo that Golden began writing a novel abouta Japanese friend. While researching the characterof his friend's mother, a retired geisha, Goldenfound he was writing about the wrong subject andswitched his focus completely. 750 pages went intothe trashcan, and he wrote 800 pages about 35years in the life of a geisha that were declared"dry." Golden then threw out another 750 pages, anact which he called "exhilarating," and then aftera week...
...continues with a rebuttal of Yale'sresidential college system, where students areassigned residential college before they arrive atthe school, and goes on to say that Harvard'snon-ordered choice system preserves the characterof the houses...
John R. Pitkin, a 25-year resident and thepresident of the Mid-Cambridge NeighborhoodAssociation, says he doesn't think the characterof the Square has been changed "in any fundamentalway" by local growth of national franchises...
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