Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stern, by Bruce Jay Friedman. This touching, low-key novel about being Jewish in a lawn-proud U.S. suburb artfully blends fact with fantasy, rue with mirth...
...work each morning, it was quite a whirl. In the U.S. last week for a seven-day official visit, Chile's Businessman-President Jorge Alessandri, 66, was whisked into a helicopter after ceremonies at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, plunked down an hour later on the White House lawn. An honor guard snapped to attention, 21 guns roared a salute in the freezing air, and President Kennedy stepped forward with words of friendship and welcome. Then came a round of diplomatic luncheons, press conferences, a white-tie dinner and a speech before the Organization of American States. But Chile...
Stern is about being Jewish in a lawn-proud suburb of midcentury, middle-class America. But Stern is no sociological novel. Blurring fact and fantasy, it is funny and sad at the same time in the tradition of the Jewish schlemiel story and the Charlie Chaplin movie...
Small Hello. Having whipped the U.S., Yugoslavia and Sweden to gain the interzone finals against India, the Mexican team arrived at New Delhi's Palam airport expecting the usual amenities. But not an Indian appeared to meet them. When the Mexicans finally made contact with the Indian Lawn Tennis Association, they got a small hello. Right up to the time they left home, the Mexicans imagined that the matches would be played in cool, dry New" Delhi, as originally scheduled. But then the Indians switched to steamy Madras, 1,000 miles to the southeast, where their own players...
Earlier last week, the two officers, while patrolling Commonwealth Avenue on a special detail to search for parking-meter thieves, noticed Washington on the raised lawn of the Bryant and Stratton School at 2 a.m. In response to questioning from the officers, Washington gave his name, address, where he was coming from, and his destination, but maintained that the officers had no right to ask him anything else without showing good reason...