Word: franklin
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...Tennessee is divided into three parts. To the ordinary historian, they are eastern, middle and western. But that misses all the savor. As Nathan Longfort identifies them, the subdivisions are the Lost State of Franklin, the area in the eastern part of the state that was once part of North Carolina; Miro, once governed by Spaniards, in the center; and the Purchase, farther west. Similar distinctions apply to families. On his mother's side, Longfort is a Virginia- Tennessean, on his father's, a Carolina-Tennessean. You can tell the difference by whether a person refers to a cabinet...
...Franklin Steen, director of the Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS), said yesterday that one of the more frequently used computer science classrooms and the Faculty Resource Center will be moved above ground to rooms 120 and 122 and 119, respectively...
...underbellies of grand American families in books about the Kennedys and the Fords. In The Roosevelts: An American Saga (Simon and Schuster; 542 pages; $27.50), written by Collier with research help from Horowitz, Theodore is portrayed as the head of a dynasty. Never mind that his family and Franklin's were distant cousins connected mainly by Eleanor, who was Theodore's niece. Her father was Theodore's brother Elliott, a dandy who late in life was capable of consuming six bottles of liquor before lunch...
Collier's portraits of the two great Roosevelts and Eleanor seem canned, although his real focus is on their role as parents and the dispiriting effects of a famous childhood. Theodore's very presence could be overbearing; Franklin was distant. Eleanor resented her husband, and "the children grew up virtually without control," writes Collier...
...Franklin and Eleanor's offspring might have become first-class boors even without famous parents. Elliott wanted to be a "big man" and ended as a hard-drinking Rotarian in Arizona. Franklin Jr. drank copiously, served in Congress and was a distributor of Fiat cars. Anna Roosevelt feuded bitterly with her mother; her husband deserted her and killed himself. Collier catalogs these events in a plodding, too decorous way, but his problem is basic: with the exception of Eleanor and the two great Presidents, these Roosevelts were an uninspired group who, in the end, weren't much of a dynasty...