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...characters grow calmly into a happiness that is, inevitably, cut short by war and its aftermath, "the Lent that was to endure all our lives." One measure of West's skill is her ability to make private suffering seem moving and memorable, even when set against a background of public cataclysm...
Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, the commencement of Lent, which means 40 days of penitence, blurred bibulously by last week in preponderantly Roman Catholic Louisiana, where the excesses were so fulsome, the wassail so all embracing, that the effect upon a paragrapher who participated was the loss of the ability to construct a straight sentence, or so it feels...
...they could not get a new $100,000 loan to tide them over, they filed for bankruptcy, reporting liabilities totaling $800,000. While the proceeding was pending, they kept farming, grossing at least $200,000 each year, but losing money nevertheless. Last week more than 100 of Steffes' friends lent moral support at a court hearing over $168,000 owed to the local bank. The bank won the right to temporarily seize the collateral Steffes had pledged on the loans...
...great farm century a way of life was established that profoundly shaped the nation. The heartland became, in Madson's view, "a repository of traditional attitudes that are metered out through the root system in subtle but powerful ways. It is a region whose soil base has lent the freedom and stability that men need to reach free and stable conclusions...
...before March 4), the three other CCA councilors are expected to throw their weight behind their colleague's less restrictive proposal. Additional support will come from Cambridge Mayor Leonard Russell, who, according to local observers, agreed to back inclusionary zoning a year ago in return for the help Sullivan lent him in his quest to be mayor. Ordinarily, changes in the zoning laws require six votes on the council with former Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci possibly holding the swing vote...