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...Marian knows that the other girls look down on her. She feels embarrassed because her mother is divorced, and she lives on Third Avenue. She never invites her classmates home for lunch because she knows that they would disapprove of her household and of her mother’s roommate, the unfashionable and sarcastic Boothy...
...protagonist, Marian Gilbert, is thirteen at the outset of the book. She is lonely, but only half-aware of that fact. She attends a small girls’ prep school on the Upper East Side, and feels lost in a “fog,” since she doesn’t fit in there. The other eighth graders are wealthier, with society parents and homes on Park Avenue, and they know how to play “prison ball” in gym class...
...Cook said. “So, when the town reapproached me about a year ago and asked me if we would be able to sell,” he was able to give them the nod. The Case Estates was the property of the two Case sisters, Marian and Louisa, and much of it was acquired by Marian in the early decades of the 20th century. They donated their estate—202 acres in total—to the Arboretum in the 1940s. Some of the land has already been sold by the University to the town...
Name: Margaret Marian RossmanAliases: Mags, The Maglet, Tooth, Toothie, Marge, Cookie, Magledon, Magster, Maggie May, Ocelot, Magoo, Lucas, Magdog, Quiz, MMR, mmrface, Magli, and simply, Maggie.I’ve been called, and answered to, every name on that list, and I’m sure a few more. (There’s an easy formula—start with Mag and add anything to the end.) This doesn’t even include the long list of names I could have been called if you follow the listings of alternate forms for Margaret in any baby book. Feel free...
Four of King's close associates who later achieved their own successes offer their thoughts: Marian Wright Edelman President of the Children's Defense Fund Everybody is looking for Dr. King to come back. The issues were very clear-cut back then. Now it's about technical matters, monitoring government agencies. And how do you relate the complex relationships of injustices and basic wrongs and needy children with the legalese and legislation needed to right them to the general public? Dr. King's vision was clear; the voice was clear. That clarity was a great loss. While...