Word: hillings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...psychiatric help, he is detained by police who think he is the one who has been making threatening phone calls to the doctor. Francis eventually winds up in the cellar of his house doing woodwork as therapy. Cheever paints a scene of dusk falling over the suburb of Shady Hill and concludes: "Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains...
...walk describes a long circle and Cheever's house comes into view again. It seems a natural outcropping of the hill on which it was built 179 years ago. In his stories, Cheever has satirized the obsession to collect and preserve old things. "It represents inertia, lack of enthusiasm, everything I detest in life." Then the curator of his own stories laughs outright: "However, if you want to see my grandmother...
...James B. Hill of Somerville, a ticket taker at the theater, has filed charges of assault and battery with the Cambridge Police as a result of the incident...
...Cambridge Police night report Hill stated that he observed five white males between 17 and twenty years of age stealing a sign from the front of the theater. When he attempted to stop them they began to assault him, and his fellow workers who came to his assistance, the report added...
...After Hill accosted the youths, one of the youths turned to him and said, "You fucking want to fight...