Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though it sounds like the plot from the science fiction flick Them, in which giant ants threaten mankind, the green-ant menace is serious to the aborigines...
...writer describes himself as "an unemployed journalist, unpublished writer of fiction and sometime freelance writer of little note...
...Providence & Worcester Railroad is a tiny (50 workers, 75 miles of track) Rhode Island freight hauler that has been beset by more problems than "the little engine that could" of children's fiction. In the past ten years, the giant Penn Central has tried to squeeze it off the tracks, it has lost seemingly do-or-die battles before both the Interstate Commerce Commission and the U.S. Supreme Court, and it has had to tough out an uphill struggle to survive on its own after years of being operated under lease. Today the line appears to be chugging toward...
...resented the strain the unbalanced sex ratio placed upon my social relations, my academics and my general psyche. I resented the awkward merger-non-merger of Harvard and Radcliffe which left all of us hanging, unsure of where we went to school. Radcliffe seemed to be a convenient fiction, designed by Harvard to protect the university from feminine pollution. All Harvard University-- the administration, faculty, alumni and many students--seemed to prefer to remain a man's world. The academic community was no escape from the pressures of the real world. The battle began here...
...course, were his look-alike impressions of former President Nixon, whose departure from Washington has sent Frye scurrying for tapes of Gerald Ford. He has already introduced the Ford voice into his nightclub act, but worries about the face. Muses Frye, "He looks like the guy in a science fiction movie who is the first one to see The Creature...