Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...settled in permanently. "The tax exemption was the reason," he says. For the past five years, he and his wife M.W. (for Mary Wilson) have lived in a 25-room Queen Anne mansion set in 200 secluded acres in County Westmeath. Except for doing some outdoor work to keep fit, Donleavy avoids farm chores and writes for a steady five hours a day. He behaves, he says, "like a gentleman writer instead of a drudge. Being a drudge is quite damaging." Although he entertains frequently, Donleavy prefers isolation. "I'm always on the verge of securing some land...
...crucial criterion for admission to the Owl Club, one member, who wished to remain anonymous, said yesterday, is whether the candidate is "a good guy." Roland A. Hernandez '79, punching chairman of the D.U. Club, said yesterday that his club looks for men who will fit well into the club's existing social milieu...
Even more important, though, the Police Association sees the reorganization Gorski started as a threat to the union. As Letteri says, "The two big issues are job seniority and job security"; and he thinks neither concern seems to fit well into the new department structure. What the University considers simple measures to insure effective police work--such requirement of frequent physical examinations--have become, in the union's eyes, little more than sophisticated union-busting ploys. Neither side can be faulted for its concern; the problem is, in fact, that both Harvard and the union have arguments that...
...Irish, the inside of the place should ring a bell. The comfortably dilapidated fixtures and peeling wallpaper, relics of the days when Jim Cronin kept shop on the present site of Holyoke Center, are straight from all those visits you used to make on Thanksgiving and Christmas. The bartenders fit all the necessary criteria, too. Not only do they make good, moderately-priced drinks, it's also possible to escape from them into a back room replete with the best juke box in Cambridge (it's not all Irish Rovers). Casual drinkers can also order food--the onion rings...
Drew said she envisages a "mythical candidate" who would deal with difficult questions seriously and would treat the voters as adults. This candidate would be genuine, but not because his image makers had molded him to fit that image...