Word: conventioned
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...leave the city, staking his claim on Riverside Drive. Before long, of course, the wild ones invade Paul's domestic bastion and violate his wife and daughter, and then of course the wife dies and the daughter's brain turns to mush and she must go to a convent for the rest of her days...
...instinctive response to the strain-a desperate, rambling attempt at self-definition. The result is a confused rag bag of reportage, memories and confession. She describes her Irish Catholic childhood in St. Paul-her father's desertion of his wife and three daughters, the "ripe eroticism" of her convent-school days. She analyzes her intellectual and artistic development, her marriage and, above all, again and again in paralyzing detail, the sexual relationships with women that began when she was at college and still dominate her life...
Without introduction, the tall, lean candidate in his dark-rimmed glasses and conservatively cut pin-stripe suit, appearing more like a professor than a politician, strode toward the podium. Only a huge photo of him and his 14-year-old daughter decorated the former chapel of a convent in Colmar. Then quickly, his hands clasped behind his back, Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 48, broke into the pedantic delivery that has become a trademark in his campaign to succeed the late Georges Pompidou as President of France...
...shelter and stabilization and strengthening of the entire community that they feel is necessary." RTH called on Harvard to maintain the existing housing in good repair until the University could provide housing at affordable rents. The tenants specifically proposed that Harvard build this relocation housing on the 10-acre Convent site, with "RTH and/or their designee" as "sponsor and developer...
...covered by the $38-million MHFA loan, $1.8 million of which will be paid to Harvard as compensation for the 13-acre site. After 40 years, the University will have an option to repurchase the land. The 1970 proposal called for Harvard to "lease the land known as the Convent site to RTH and/or their designee for a minimum of 50 years at $1.00 per year...