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...listless biology student at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Hillary announced that she was quitting school to "find out what is happening in the world." She zigzagged among half a dozen jobs, made herself an expert on local rent law and won a suit against her landlord. Then she took her $500 court award and hitchhiked across the country. This fall, she finally returned to Buffalo, switched her major from biology to community education, and turned on an enthusiasm she had never shown before. "I'm taking courses I believe in now," she says. "I found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: As College Starts, There Go the Stop-Outs | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

...himself curiously unable to finish the book. Like that of his own fictional character, Lesser's isolated life bucks the very love he is trying to imagine on paper. Holed up in his self-made prison, he writes, munches apples and turns a deaf ear to Levenspiel, the landlord who wants to get him out so the structure can be replaced by a new six-story apartment building. Lesser is the last tenant, a holdout protected from eviction by a maze of city regulations. Using the world's red tape to keep the world at bay is Lesser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Condemnation Proceedings | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

...tragic limitations. In The Tenant, men hack blindly at each other's flesh, and the author labors to discern some faint compassion in the violence. Like Lesser, Malamud too has had trouble finishing his book. The difficulty is underscored by an epilogue in which Levenspiel, the landlord whom circumstance has also made a victim of the combat, sets up a liturgical cry for mercy. In effect it is an unanswered cry for a release from history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Condemnation Proceedings | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

Mendelsohn made two attempts to register--the first in mid-May, the second in July--and on both occasions he was turned down. Cancelled rent checks and a signed letter from his landlord were both rejected as insufficient proof of residency, and Mendelsohn finally requested a hearing by the Election Commission on his case...

Author: By Lynn M. Derling, | Title: Our Voting Commissioners: Gee, We're Sorry but... | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...accused Meany of being "out of step" with the average working man. That struck a raw nerve, for the aged Meany, 77, feels his leadership threatened by younger union Turks. He sneered: "I don't pay too much attention to the Secretary. If you have a problem with the landlord, you don't discuss it with the janitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Nixon's Grand Design for Recovery | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

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