Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Macintoshes are guarded by proctors from noon until midnight. Proctors keep students who are not in Computer Sciences 11 or Math 21a from using the computers for word processing. About 400 to 600 students need to use the computers for course work...
...should. In Moonshine, however, Wilkinson makes a fundamental mistake. Perhaps he dropped his recipe for success while he was wandering around in the woods looking for stills under a midnight moon, but he lost it somehow--and the magic of his first book with...
...worked the midnight shift, driving aimlessly up and down Main Street, Commercial Street, Route Six and the countless back roads of the small community, hoping to avoid showdowns, weighing his responsibility to enforce the law against his fear of confrontation and his unpreparedness. (No one ever showed him how to fire his revolver...
...Wilkinson didn't spend a year with Bunting, and this may be his greatest problem. He made several trips to Scotland Neck, N.C., but the minutely detailed reporting of Midnight is missing in Moonshine. Wilkinson became a part of Wellfleet, and described it with authority. The backwoods of Carolina aren't such comfortable turf for him; no number of summers on the Cape could have prepared him for the people and the culture he found there...
When the Apple computers were installed last year, students were allowed to use them for word processing. But now large signs posted in the room read "No Word Processing," and from noon to midnight, a proctor checks I.D.'s to see if the students are in classes that require use of the machines...