Word: janes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jane S. Lewis New York City...
...snacking on pretzels and Italian ices bought from street vendors who crowded into the foyer. At Shea Stadium, play stopped in the sixth inning, with the Chicago Cubs leading the New York Mets 2 to 1. For about 45 minutes, the 22,000 fans sang along with Organist Jane Jarvis; to take their minds off the heat, she played White Christmas...
...theory that Americans have moved from an era of rising expectations into an era of rising entitlement-a theory that was all too emphatically affirmed by looters in blacked-out New York City last week-has also been endorsed by a Boston federal judge, no less. When Jane Benduzek, 40, admitted embezzling $84,958 from Boston's South Shore National Bank, where she was a teller, Judge Frank Murray was told that she had felt "entitled" to all that loot. She used much of it to help right such "wrongs'" as the financial setbacks suffered by her brother...
Americans' first-naming can have an expansive Jacksonian charm, suggesting some of the better American traits: a lack of social rigidity, an easy frankness. But after a while, the entire country begins to sound like a singles weekend: "Jane, this is Steve, Jack, Karen, Benny ..." Such relentless familiarity has a cheap ring. Americans do not need a Japanese system of honorifics, but they could stand to be a little stuffier. Just as there are still- possibly- some things that are not done on the first date, so first names should be held in reserve, for at least half...
...Davidson has made herself one of the central characters in her book) was a second-generation Californian, a freelance journalist who "wanted to be the Girl of the Sixties brand-new, streamlined, groovy daring upfront, telling it like it is. I also wanted to stop wearing a bra, but Jane and I worried that it would cause our breasts to droop...