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Dolly is the most colorful character. According to the boy (who narrates the story), "her presence is a delicate happening." She compensates for her loveless existence with letters from her dropsy-cure customers, as does the cold, business-minded Verena with her profitable, secret ventures. Catherine, who is "dark as the angels of Africa" takes delight in cursing That One (Verena). "Her ugly moods sifted through the house like sour yellow mist. That One. Hush now, hush...
Like many another U.S. city, Portland (pop. 77,000) worries about its people's failure to take much interest in town affairs. Only 25% of its citizens bothered to vote in recent elections. In their search for a cure, Portlanders recently reinstituted an old down-East tradition, the town meeting. They began holding three a year, each in a different section, with the idea of covering the city's twelve chief districts in four years...
Guiss argues that two things must be done to save more victims of stomach cancer: 1) people must be taught that, if they report their symptoms early, they have a chance of being cured, and 2) doctors and patients alike must recognize that so far the only "cure" is surgery...
...into this old case, trying to fit the pieces of the puzzle together from back newspaper files and court records into a sensational scandal. Icily insolent, he mouths cliches about the "sins of the South" and its "incipient fascism"-which he says only his kind of newspaper exposure will cure...
...revised admissions policy has been put forward as the cure for this part of the dilemma. If alumni really scoured the country for "scholar-athletes," it is argued, Harvard could field a respectable football team each year without resorting to paying players or lowering its academic standards. But this sort of program must be carefully watched. Attempts to get more good all-round students to apply to Harvard and thus broaden the base from which the admissions committee can choose are ipso facto desirable. But misdirected efforts which unbalanced this broad base in favor of football players or any other...