Word: clara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some people still call it Santa Clara County, Calif., but more and more it is referred to as Silicon Valley, the place the miracle-chip industry calls home. Packed into a 10-mile by 25-mile wedge along the southwestern shore of San Francisco Bay are hundreds of the nation's high-technology firms, many of them involved in manufacturing silicon chips, related semiconductor devices and microcomputer-controlled products. At rush hour, cars inch along Highway 101, the valley's main drag, and peel off into the parking lots of well-manicured, one-and two-story buildings with...
Fictional controversy has become real. The group's sponsorship of the film angered many of the 35,000 members at the A.L.A.'s annual business meeting in Chicago. Detroit's public library director and past A.L.A. president, Clara Jones, condemned the film as "highly unsuitable, insensitive, in poor taste and skillfully racist." But the film's supporters have been equally vociferous. Said Atlanta Head Public Librarian Ella Yates, who is black: "I don't believe in squelching the Ku Klux Klan, the Nazis or any racist who wants to talk. The only way to deal with hateful ideas is openly...
LETTERS TO FRIENDS, FAMILY AND EDITORS by Franz Kafka; translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Schocken; 509 pages...
...crisp vignettes. His prose is clear and judiciously cool, though his attempts to pump drama into drawing-room confrontations may lead to such awkwardness as "But Ivy's words were still written like the smoke letters of an airplane announcing a public event across the pale sky of Clara's calm...
...salon," where poets recite new odes over cocktails and scholars extemporise treatises on Shakespeare at the dinner table. Irving Stein, who heads this circle, is a Jewish multimillionaire banker who heads this circle. His ideal in life is to create a "temple of beauty" at Broadlawns, his weekend estate. Clara, his unloved but valuable because Protestant wife, is "the centerpiece of his collection, the beautiful woman to whom the beautiful porcelains, the ivories and jades, the medieval tapestries and stained glass paid silent tribute," the "priestess for the shrine" in the suburbs...