Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter, the Democratic Party is hardly a monolith either. Last week 17 of the nation's 24 Democratic Governors gathered in St. Louis to discuss the candidates-and decided nothing. Awaiting Hubert Humphrey's announcement, the Governors resisted Kennedy pressures for an endorsement and concluded, as New Jersey's Richard Hughes put it, that "a pause is clearly in order...
...application his deep love of sailing, which, he rhapsodized, occupies his attention "from the first wakening sail in early April to the last frostbite stint in late October." Columbia passed over applicants with stronger academic credentials to accept a practicing Buddhist from up state New York, a New Jersey student who arranged music for an off-Broad way show and a Long Island youth who accompanied his application with photographs of his sculpture. It also agreed to accept Vladimir Gulevich, 20, of Paterson, N.J., who graduated from his local high school two years ago with below-average grades, went...
...rude surprise. His Chilmark house, which used to be a safe 200 ft. from the cliffs overlooking the sea, is now only 80 ft. away, and the broad stone steps that were once in his backyard are now on the beach below. On the New Jersey shore, the sea has slowly devoured 50 square blocks of the town of Cape May Point, and St. Peter's by the Sea Episcopal Church, a frame structure which has already been moved three times, now has the sea only 50 ft. from its doorstep. Parts of North Carolina's storm-crossed...
Updike devotes three hours a day to writing, occupying a cluttered room above a restaurant off the Ipswich green. At home, wearing tattered white sneakers, baggy pants, a turtleneck jersey and a shaggy haircut, he romps with his four children-Elizabeth, Michael, David and Miranda-or plays in a recorder group with Mary. On a winter morning, he might emerge from his 13-room white saltbox house, scoop up an armful of snow and heave ten decimal points against the stop sign on the corner. On a summer morning, he can go out to his small garden and properly cultivate...
Updike's novels, though very much distinct from each other, were each rooted in the past. The Poorhouse Fair, though ostensibly set in New Jersey, was really drawn from the old folks' home near the Updike house in Shillington, and told a slight, whispered story of the accumulating sense of pointlessness among the inmates. From there, Updike leaped two generations to Rabbit, Run, a quietly savage novel about a former high school basketball star who simply runs away from wife, child, job and the suffocating box of senseless moral obligations. It was a flawlessly turned portrait...