Word: groves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despite the many problems, existence was not all grim. The luckless lined up for bread and coffee at Newman's garage in Dixon, and yet the truth of many a young man's mood was as remembered by Lawrence Grove, who hustled popcorn at the park where Reagan was a lifeguard. Recalls Grove: "We really had little sense of the Depression. We always had a good time." Such a time, in Dixon, usually meant a day at the park, socializing at Fluf's Confectionary, an 8? ice cream cone at the Prince Ice Cream Castle, roller skating...
...Singer Toni Tennille joined the La Guardia Community College choir and throngs of shoppers in O Come All Ye Faithful and Jingle Bells when the 65-ft. Norway spruce was lighted in Rockefeller Center. Meanwhile, in California nearly 4,000 members of the Reform Church of America at Garden Grove's fancy new million-dollar Crystal Cathedral heard Roger Williams play Deck the Halls in a special service to be televised for Christmas...
Haunted by the memory of the 1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire that killed 504 persons, Boston has one of the nation's most stringent fire codes. Every building over 70 ft. tall, for instance, must have a sprinkler in every room, closet and corridor. Just as important, owners of some existing buildings have voluntarily modernized their fire-safety systems. The venerable seven-story Copley Plaza was built in 1912, but its owners are spending $460,000 to install smoke alarms in every room after an arsonist's blaze in 1979 killed two people...
Sadie can be rough on his predecessors at Grove 5: "The articles on Rachmaninoff and Richard Strauss were not worthy of the subjects ... Organist and Composer William Wolstenholme left no impact on the history of music and he shouldn't have been in at all." The new edition is tougher and less sentimental. Sadie's own piece of Mozart, the longest single biography (89 columns) in the dictionary, is a good example. Says Sadie: "Mozart was not just a victim of infirmities and circumstances. He alienated potential patrons and that's partly why he died poor...
...strengths and weaknesses of huge reference works like the New Grove will take years to judge. But Macmillan is already planning Grove 7. Though it may be too early to shout encore! it is reassuring to know that Sadie and his band will play...