Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sampson's father isn't objecting to letting the two go out alone anymore--he is proudly announcing his daughter's engagement in the pair's hometown of Live Oak, Florida...
Like many other seniors, Jay R. Girotto '96 took time off from graduation preparations last week. But while some seniors relaxed and vacationed last Thursday, Girotto ran with the Olympic Torch through one mile of his hometown of Cedar Rapids, Iowa...
Davis, a mathematics concentrator, grew up in rural Bronson, Mich., population 2,300 and part of Michigan's aging industrial belt. He describes his background as "fairly poor." Most people in his hometown were from similar social situations...
Kennedy, the Faulkner of upstate New York, again draws inspiration from Albany, the hometown he once described as an "improbable city of political wizards, fearless ethnics, spectacular aristocrats, splendid nobodies, and underrated scoundrels." The aforementioned now rub elbows and knock heads in a novel that once more demonstrates the author's passion for place and his skill as a literary magician. How else should one describe a writer who moves effortlessly through time and who can summon ghostly characters from previous books to play full-blooded roles in his latest work...
BOOKS . . . THE FLAMING CORSAGE: The Faulkner of upstate New York, William Kennedy again draws inspiration from of Albany in his new novel, 'The Flaming Corsage' (Viking; 209 pages; $23.95). Kennedy once described his hometown as an 'improbable city of political wizards, fearless ethnics, spectacular aristocrats, splendid nobodies, and underrated scoundrels.' "The aforementioned now rub elbows and knock heads in a novel that once more demonstrates the author's passion for place and his skill as a literary magician, says TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "How else should one describe a writer who moves effortlessly through time and who can summon ghostly...