Word: fondnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take over the whole neighborhood eventually," says Adam Artis, a resident at 9 Sacramento Place, who has lived in his Harvard-owned twofamily house for five years. Lydia Enos, a neighbor of Artis, several years ago refused to sell her house to Harvard buyers. She says she is very fond of her neighborhood, and had no interest in selling, despite the high prices; Harvard offered. Wylie says that Harvard's tenants' fears that their homes were purchased for landbanking purposes is legitimate...
...first few months of his presidency, Jimmy Carter was viewed with fond and hopeful pride by the leaders of organized labor, who felt they had been decisive in his victory at the polls. "We were in a state of euphoria," recalls Al Zack, AFL-CIO spokesman and a confidant of Labor Chief George Meany. "We had a wish list that was a mile long." But then the disappointments began. Carter and Meany clashed over minimum wage, unemployment, and Social Security legislation. Meany found so many black marks on his list that he added them up and gave Carter a grade...
...main things money provides is privacy," Paul says, and everyone talks, as Bunny does, of his imperial remoteness. "The people who are fond of Paul are much fonder of him than he is of them," says one of his closest friends sadly. A poem he wrote 50 years ago in the Yale Lit offers perhaps the best clue to his character...
Because he conceived his mission as didactic, Blake's ruling passion was exactness. Nothing infuriated him more than the idea that visions might be cloudy or woolly. "I know too well that a great majority of Englishmen are fond of The Indefinite which they Measure by New ton's Doctrine of the Fluxions of an Atom, A Thing that does not Exist ... a Line or Lineament is not formed by Chance; a Line is a Line in its Minutest Subdivisions . . . God keep me from the Divinity of Yes & No too, The Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing...
...John Prine, Steve Goodman, and Jerry Jeff Walker. Like Buffett, they all added their own carbonations to the flat brew of country music: Prine his Appalachian hillbilly twang, Goodman his Chicago blues, Walker just all-out Texas boozing. What they did was blow out the earnest country cliches with fond parodies ("You Don't Have to Call Me Darlin', Darlin', But You Never Even Call Me By My Name"), rocking mockers ("Up Against The Wall, Redneck Mother"), chomping satires ("My Whole World Lies Waiting Behind Door Number Three"), love-into-lust songs ("Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw...