Word: geoffreys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...variety of "conversational writing." Unshackled, Hoagland converses recklessly, wildly, an abundance of critical detail and blinding enthusiasm fueling his abrupt transitions from present to past, subject to self, city to countryside. As Hoagland charges about from topic to reflection to stylistic glissando, we find, as observed critic Geoffrey Wolff, that "it is impossible to know (but easy to feel) what the essay is 'about.'" Hoagland, ablaze in a trail of Pickwickian serendipity, is the sympathetic purveyor of black bears, red wolves, and city rats; he records the folk lore of early settlers in British Columbia and Vermont and the survivalist...
...enterprise-zone concept originated in Britain through an unusual alliance of the left and the right. Peter Hall, former chairman of the socialist Fabian Society, wrote a pamphlet that inspired Sir Geoffrey Howe, the Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, to urge that it be tried. Despite strong opposition from the Labor Party, the Conservative government in April provided about $70 million for six enterprise districts in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland...
...Geoffrey Household...
...years since Geoffrey Household wrote his classic suspense novel Rogue Male, with its sporting narrator stalking Adolf Hitler in Germany-and being counterstalked by Nazis in Dorset...
...Geoffrey I. Phillips Mamaroneck...