Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Isabel skips eagerly out of her eleven-year retirement. Helped by two old Dover Road pals who have since quit the neighborhood, she soon has smart clothes and a social service job in upstate New York. She sells the house, moves, and falls lyrically in love with a married...
...fought her family and her teachers to go to Barnard, and later did post-graduate work at Syracuse University. Four years ago, she married a British anthropologist. The idea for Final Payments came from the old neighborhood. "I thought of women of my mother's generation who led sacrificed lives for someone in their family. There is a terrible human need when the body conks out, but no one in my generation gives over his life. I began by wondering what would happen." After the book was turned down by a couple of publishers, Gordon took it around...
Although Harvard filed an appeal of that ruling in February, a coalition representing 5000 residents of the neighborhood surrounding the site of the plant charged Harvard this week with trying to delay the hearing on the appeal...
...student with the 410 verbal score currently attends an inner-city high school in a tough neighborhood. He has no father and has helped raise two younger brothers. He is president of his student body and has a straight A record. "The only thing this kid has not done is score high," Calvin N. Mosely, associate director of admissions, points...
...drive away (22-G). Or Proud Owner can mail now obsolete (at 53 weeks) Magico to aforesaid manufacturer and expect it back in two or three months, or many more if mfr. hangs out in Hong Kong (22-H). Or P.O. can attempt to get it repaired at Friendly Neighborhood Hardware Store, only to find that F.N.H.S. no longer handles repairs (22-1). Thoroughly p.o.'d, P.O. finally locates a shop that actually under takes to fix small appliances. There, after waiting meekly in line for an hour or so, he/she sets Magico on a counter for the disdainful...