Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lives in a bachelor apartment in Manhattan, though she still visits Independence, Mo. about four times a year and votes there, is excited about her new job, believes that the regular hours will be good discipline for her. "I need eight to ten hours' sleep," she says, "and haven't been getting it. I'm at the studio by 9 a.m., on the air all five days from 10:15 to noon, then again from 2 to 3:30. Frankly, I thought it was going to be a grind. But I'm having fun. I love...
Which Paris? He never left the North American continent ("Why," he told his wife when she proposed a trip to France, "I haven't even seen Paris, Idaho"). He hated the literary exiles who called themselves lost, and said that the sickness they saw around them was only their own. He despised writers with delusions about the writer's importance ("The importance of literary people is chiefly to one another"), and he insisted that literary criticism was "an activity in which uncontrolled speculation is virtuous and responsibility is almost impossible." DeVoto was a man in search of facts...
...strong a light must necessarily cast a strong shadow; and Julie, so her friends think, has been too much afraid of the dark in human life for a grown-up girl. She agrees. "I haven't got a good capacity for suffering. I crack too quickly under the stress of it. I give up and I go away from what is hurting me. I don't want a life of continual fighting. I have a longing for peace. I wish I had more fight, but when I fight I lose my work -the feeling goes...
...after Patrick B. McGinnis chided New Yorkers for "being satisfied to travel in the subways like pigs," homeward-bound commuters last week were packed like porkers into Grand Central Terminal (see cut), awaiting trains delayed more than two hours by a locomotive fire on McGinnis' New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail Road. The fire snarled 20 New Haven trains and 21 New York Central trains that use the same tracks into Grand Central. It was the latest and one of the longest New Haven delays since McGinnis won a heated proxy fight and took over the road in April...
Carl T. Tucker, of the Central Kitchen--in whose five House dining halls the polls were circulated last June--also expressed willingness to cooperate with the group. "But the last I heard they were going to tabulate the polls over the summer, and they haven't contacted me since," said Tucker...