Word: hanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everyone remembers 1968, and most of over-40 Detroit remembers, at least vaguely, Hank Greenberg, Schoolboy Rowe and the class of '45. And everybody has heard Sparky Anderson's too-loud propaganda about the 90 wins in 1980 and the division title in '81. But the real action is now, as the Tigers finish out another long summer at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull...
...good idea, therefore, to attend the cider and cookie shindig at your senior adviser's pad. And don't be careless with your fancy invitation to Dean Hank Moses' tea party. You'll get hot cider, good coffee and some of the best pastries in Cambridge. And you'll get a chance to meet the Dean, who's truly a great guy. Ask him to go rock climbing and he'll love you. But be careful about dragging him onto a handball court. He's a terror...
...Freshman's Dean's Office, at Morton Prince House, will be open. A good excuse to talk to Hank Moses, dean of Freshman. He's heavy into Outward Bound and orienteering, so read up in advance if you need a pretext for discussion. Go easy, though: Moses is a low-key fellow. Very Ivy League, very laid back. He wears cool penny loafers or topsiders. Ask for the brand name then go buy a pair...
...former Ford Motor Co. boss complained in a speech that the 73-story Detroit Plaza Hotel, the showpiece of the city's celebrated Renaissance Center complex along the waterfront, might be doing nicely in attracting conventions but was not producing enough "transient business," Young took a microphone to declare: "Hank the Deuce just told us we gotta start hot-sheetin' it at the hotel...
...hard to tell who suffers more, the wandering parents or their children. Delivering follows two thoroughly upset brothers on their newspaper route the morning after their mother and father noisily called it quits. In the title novella, Finding a Girl in America, Dubus picks up the saga of Hank Allison that he began in two earlier volumes of stories. Experiments in consensual philandering ultimately broke up the Allison marriage. Now Hank, 35, lives alone, teaches at a small Massachusetts college and has sequential affairs with matriculating young women: "What had been spice in his married twenties was now his sustenance...