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...grandparents, whom I lived with for three years as a child, were the greatest influence on my life. My grandfather Shia Seicol had come to the U.S. from Russia. He had a great passion for America and an amazing love of country. In New Haven, Conn., where they lived, we were always going to parades. My grandfather and I would stand on the curb, and he'd be holding my hand; I could feel his hand breaking my fingers when the flag was coming by, and the martial music was playing. I'd look up into his face...
...that the way little girls are brought up to speak in Connecticut?" I asked. Ann Coulter grew up in New Canaan, Conn.; her mother was raised in Paducah, Ky. "I know it's not the way little girls are brought up to talk in Kentucky...
...about his background in Greece could be confirmed. He provided no birth certificate, and his Greek naval service could not be corroborated. Nonetheless, Veliotis was granted secret clearance. Furthermore, since Defense Department rules prohibit immigrant aliens from running top-secret facilities, the General Dynamics shipyards at Quincy and Groton, Conn., were downgraded to secret status to allow Veliotis access...
DIED. Susanne K. Langer, 89, American philosopher who synthesized the thinking of several disciplines into an influential new theory of human mentality; in Old Lyme, Conn. Her seminal work, Philosophy in a New Key (1942), shows how symbol making is the basic function of the human mind and rejects the dichotomy between thought, as expressed in language, and feelings, which require some other sort of symbolic portrayal, like art. In Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, her three-volume masterwork published between 1967 and 1982, she conceives of feelings as the vital process of the mind and argues that "intellect...
This cool spring afternoon, the salvation site is suburban. One hundred yards from the Merritt Parkway, 1½ rush hours from Manhattan, the frame of a born-again Babcock barn climbs skyward in Fairfield, Conn. After eight years in their 200-year-old farmhouse, Advertising Executive Rick Baker and his wife Cathy called on Babcock to erect a colonial barn addition, which will hold a new living room and a cluster of bedrooms. They wanted more space, but they also wanted to respect the region's history...