Word: laura
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also strains credulity. On the other hand, his problems often lead the Ingalls family into livelier action sequences than competing shows offer. Best of all, the show eschews the nostalgic and moralizing narration that is the most obvious of the many trials The Waltons inflicts on viewers. Like the Laura Ingalls Wilder children's books from which the show derives, Little House genuinely seems to be striving for a simple, straightforward style, minimizing both melodramatic and sentimental excesses...
Both groups agree that blacks are among the "oppressed peoples," but neither organization has any black members and both are largely upper-middle class. Both Saffran and NAM spokesperson Laura Burns, a second-semester junior, say this owes to Harvard's make...
...Laura Burns says that although NAM has not yet reached a "consensus," the group will probably put less emphasis this year on study groups within the group than on working at organizing or picketing. On the other hand, D-SOC's Minard talks ambitiously about discussion groups and guest speakers...
...stories concern the Richardson family, from the birth of Sam and Laura's youngest son, Question, in Virginia to a family reunion almost twenty years later in Venice. Sam joined the State Department to escape from his parents' life as Long Island country squires--hunting, fishing and putting up Christmas trees. Although he soon becomes disaffected with his job, he is compensated by the life of a diplomat: a few years here, a few years there, never staying in one place long enough to grow restless or attached to the surface of things. His three sons--Scobie, Matthew, and Quentin...
...trying, in one way or another, to answer the basic question of how to live. They find an answer, although not a dramatic one, one that allows them to preserve their own calm without ignoring the powerful evils around them. "Only the moments exit, but not their imaginary combination," Laura says. "It's all a matter of balancing between the temptation to remember and the sympathetic magic of the still moment...