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...Webster Groves Board of Education is convening in the one-story school-district building tucked into the shadow of the high school. Had out-of-town visitors driven to that meeting by way of Elm Street, with its lovingly restored Victorian homes valued at as much as $700,000, they might have assumed that the board's major task this evening was figuring out how best to invest all those tax revenues that must roll in from such a prosperous community. They would be wrong...
...American society. The moral center of gravity shifted from middle-aged authority to youthful impulse. So did the commercial center of gravity: the boomers were a gold mine. Now we live in an enduring vacuum of grownups, taken from us in the way that blight obliterated the American elm...
...made a right turn off of Mass. Ave. onto Beech Street, past a funeral home's two Cadillac hearses and a Jehovah's Witness temple to the intersection with Elm Street. Hitting the yellow rubber strip, I requested my stop. But the signal didn't work...
...wandered off of Elm onto Willow, and found myself in familiar stomping grounds--I used to live here. Walking down Willow brought me to a magical world of residential living, far from the ridiculous parodies I had seen in Harvard Square earlier that morning. At the intersection with Highland Avenue and Willow, in a little corner grocery so quintessentially itself that the owner could well have disposed of the formality of a name, I bought a Coke and a donut. As usual, the baked goods display held the promise of what was to come: good times. I was down...
...checked pay phones and managed to come up with two dimes and four nickels. Dejected, I headed off down Elm Street out of Davis heading for Porter. I did not feel like walking, so when my bus came rolling down the street, I did the unthinkable...