Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...makes the distinction to ward off any suggestions that From Rockaway is any more than somewhat autobiographical. Unlike the Catholic-school casualties she describes in her story, Eisenstadt went to public school and lived in a different neighborhood in Rockaway. She's never been to a "death keg" party, never jumped off a 40-foot bridge into the Atlantic's mucky low tide, and has never taken part in any other beach-bum antics. "A lot of the stories in the book are true--or at least I've heard them as true," she says. "But it's based...
...autobiography, Pat Robertson described his brief 1959 ministry in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in a chapter titled "Rats, Roaches and Bedbugs." With the televangelist harboring such fond memories of the local insect population, it seemed strange that Robertson would select this slowly gentrifying black neighborhood to formally declare his G.O.P. presidential candidacy...
Step two: Get a new label. (See figure 2.) Fortunately enough for our freshman friend, this, like most other necessities of Harvard, was available at the Coop. Avery Label Company makes the requisite three inch by one-third inch label and our friendly neighborhood bookstore stocks boxes of these...
...these campuses form a fortress against the surrounding West End neighborhood. Spelman is shielded with barbed wire and 24 hour guard posts. The Spelman student I was with couldn't stand to see the gathering of Black teens on a nearby street corner; they had no ambition, she said...
...divestiture), anyone can employ them. Many consumers no longer know whose directories they are using. Southern Bell calls its 242 editions the "Real Yellow Pages," while other publishers have adopted distinctive names in order to stand out from the crowd. GTE, for example, publishes 51 editions of the Neighborhood Phone Book. Nobody knows which editions consumers use the most when they are faced with a choice, but industry-wide surveys to sort out such preferences are getting under...