Word: harriet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DIED. Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, 89, children's book author of many of the gee-whiz adventures in series like Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Tom Swift and the Bobbsey Twins; in Pottersville, N.J. Writing under such names as Carolyn Keene, Franklin W Dixon, Victor W. Appleton and Laura Lee Hope, Adams spun out more than 200 tales during a 52-year career. Adams was one of several writers who worked for the juvenile series' controlling corporation, the Stratemeyer Syndicate, founded by her father Edward more than 70 years...
...commuters report on the shock, sometimes comic, of working out new support systems-from how to balance the family checkbook, to finding a new doctor or dentist, to simply lugging the family silver back and forth to have it on hand for dinner parties in both cities. Says Harriet Engel Gross of Governors State University, one of the sociologists who study commuter marriages: "The decision to live apart produces a life-style that is difficult at best, endured in the service of career or other goals, but not one endorsed enthusiastically." The typical commuter, researchers say, is very serious about...
Afro-American Video--Byron Rushing and Claire Watkins; Harriet Tubman House, 566 Columbus Ave., Boston...
...broad American middle class-especially seduced by the illusion. Until now, through many headlong cultural confusions, they carried with them a barely conscious expectation, a sort of buried genetic code. When they chose to do so, when the babies started arriving, they could transform themselves into Ozzie and Harriet and find houses like the ones their parents owned-or much nicer, maybe-and therein comfortably get on with the American dream...
Wilkins once commented that the two people he most admired in history were the black revolutionaries Harriet Tubman and Nat Turner. By remaining a peaceful man of reason, Roy Wilkins well earned a place among his heroes...