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...Cape Cod Summer Job Bureau reports that there are thousands of summer jobs available on the Cape, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard for college students. For the first time in years, businessmen say, there are seriously more jobs available than there are people to fill them. The job bureau charges no fee. If you're interested in finding out more, please send a long, self-addressed, stamped envelope to the bureau...
...other side of the world. Few people know that the island lies just off South Carolina. Most of the natives would like it to stay that way. Package tourism may be growing steadily as a key industry on the island, but the social climate there stubbornly clings to its Nantucket and Palm Springs roots...
...gentle poems like Poe's To Helen, but it misses the force and majesty of Crane's bitter War Is Kind or Lazarus' noble ode to the Statue of Liberty, The New Colossus. The reach of the texts generally exceeds the composer's grasp. "The music was written in Nantucket during July of 1983," Rorem explains in a program note. "That July, as it happens, contained a houseful of guests; like 18th century female novelists, I was constrained to create on the sly." Too slyly, it appears. He should have sent the guests home...
MARRIED. Glenn Close, 36, effortless-appearing actress of stage (The Real Thing and film (The Big Chill, The Natural); ana James Marias, 47, venture capitalist; both for the second time; in Nantucket, Mass...
...Nantucket Island, Mass., an innovative approach to that problem is a 2% tax on all real estate sales, the funds to be used to buy back the beaches for the public. But most states are not obliged to pay for what is viewed as a longstanding public right. That may be true even in Maine, which is still governed to some extent by a 17th century grant from the King of England that gave away huge tracts of coastal land, including the beaches, to encourage settlement...