Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that introductions are out of the way and everyone knows the three finalists, some new scripts−and new ideas−are in order. There is, after all, quite a lot to talk about...
...allusion from this new breed of Jock Lit? Well, length for one thing−notably in the case of James Michener. As readers of tomes like Hawaii and Centennial can testify, Michener is not one to take his obligations lightly, and the way he tells it. he owes a lot to sports. As a closet jock−and most Jock Lit starts with confession−Michener testifies that basketball rescued him from a career of crime as a tough kid in Doylestown, Pa. At 69, tennis is his game. Since 1965, when he suffered a coronary infarction, he has credited...
...Garner, what bothers Asakawa about Widener is not the atmosphere but the price paid by a visiting scholar to rent a stall. "There were good books on what happened during General MacArthur's administration in Japan, but it cost me about $165 for three months, so I xeroxed a lot of things and left," he said...
...depriving him of his Japanese cultural background, Asakawa said, and his father, a businessman, encouraged a group of his Japanese-American friends to support his son while he writes. "There's an active interest among Asian-Americans to see something written," Asakawa said. "Tradition keeps your identity in a lot of ways. And in recent years it has become popular to encourage separate communities of ethnics to develop." But, he added, "a novel doesn't work just because you are an ethnic, unfortunately...
What that means is that you have plenty of money and, barring pre-med doldrums, a lot of time to fill spending it. In short, you really couldn't have come to a better place. Gone is the Cambridge and the Harvard Square of the '50s and the first half of the '60s: Ye Olde College Shoppes with owners who knew the boys' names like an Eliot House Master, Harvard pennants on the wall, and fine wood interiors. Gone, too, are the head shops, clothes stores and coffeehouses of the late '60s and early '70s, and with them the hippie...