Word: conn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hamilton's search for Salinger leads him into the author's fiction, where he finds autobiographical inspiration. The city and suburban settings of Nine Stories reflect Salinger's Manhattan youth and his adult stint among the commuters of Westport, Conn. The soldier in the magical For Esme -- with Love and Squalor suffers from a case of nerves not unlike the symptoms Salinger described in a letter to Hemingway. Models are identified for members of the Glass family, the precocious and haunting characters who ride the time loops of stories as early as A Perfect Day for Bananafish and as late...
...Loyola (11-1) in Loyola, Md. Number-11 seed Cornell (6-5 and last year's NCAA Tournament runner-up) will square-off against the University of Massachusetts (10-2) in Amherst. And number-10 seed Virginia (7-4) will meet number-seven Yale (12-3) in New Haven, Conn...
...there is big trouble in the Cabbage Patch. Citing a debt load of about $300 million, incurred mostly during years of heady expansion, the firm said last week it would lay off 35% of the managerial staff at its West Hartford, Conn., headquarters and 50% of its production employees. But as dramatic as those steps were, Wall Street is not sure they will be enough to keep Coleco out of bankruptcy...
...PRESTON, CONN.--Ever hear the old wives' tale that everything bad comes in threes...
...inner city, teachers sometimes forget what a real classroom is like. Learning falls to the back of the scene. Talking, throwing--education becomes a big food fight," says tutor Peter J. Freed '90, who attended an urban public high school in New Haven, Conn., and says he hopes to spend the summer tutoring in the Connecticut prison system. "For a lot of these people, they've never had a teacher interested in them as an individual rather than as someone who should shut...