Word: mason
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scholars relished the chance to put on coveralls and try out some of their ideas on the assembly line. Says Marketing Professor J. Barry Mason, chairman of the university's task force: "We couldn't stay locked in an ivory tower at a time like this." The workers, for their part, welcomed the helpful meddling. GM had bought the former textile mill in 1977, at the height of the new-car boom. But sales began a four-year slump in 1979, and in August 1982 GM announced it would close the factory unless local managers and workers could...
...successful, a peace-keeping force must work with opposing groups who want peace. This is not the case in Lebanon [Oct. 31]. It makes as much sense to keep Americans in Lebanon as it would have to station British forces along the Mason-Dixon line at the beginning of the American Civil...
...love you." Dialogue is employed sporsely, and is often hesitantly mundane, as if the conversants had only recently recovered the use of thier tongues after an enforced silence, and weren't exactly sure what should be said. Humor is a welcome leavening in such situations, and Bobbie Ann Mason's "Graveyard Day" is particularly adept at keeping readers alert...
Four is a small banquet, but readers can choose for themselves how many stories they wish to return to, and the menu is certainly extensive. Established masters Updike, Carver, Wright Morris, and LeGuin are joined by rising talents like Laurie Colwin and Bobbie Ann Mason, as well as a host of freshman including, curiously, James Bond...
...unrelated development, a former Mason fellow at the Kennedy School of Government has formed an organization dedicated to the democratization of the Philippines. Heherson Alvarez, who studied at the K-School in 1981-82, said that the group will encourage Filipino nationals living in the United States to boycott Philippine taxes, as well as foster civil disobedience in that country...