Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appointment to Annapolis, but had to spend another year at Georgia Tech brushing up on his mathematics. He arrived at the academy in 1943, rushing through accelerated wartime courses to graduate with distinction. After receiving his commission, Carter came back to Plains to marry his childhood neighbor, Rosalynn Smith, and they left Georgia for what was to have been a career in the Navy...
...earns about $50 a week in take-home pay. He quit school at 16, but he speaks one other language, most likely English, well enough to read a newspaper or understand a movie. He watches his television set an average of 13 hours a week. He uses his neighbor's telephone, but expects to get his own within a year or so. He has a car-a modest economy Renault, Fiat or Volkswagen. He has a vacuum cleaner, washing machine, food blender and refrigerator, but no deepfreeze, air conditioner or dishwasher. He has a savings account, but hoards...
GOING to the Hub is like seeing a play in your neighbor's living room. The theatre is in the basement of the Old West Church, in the Sunday School room. It is practically dark when you arrive; the only light comes from the Church kitchen, where they sell (what else?) coffee and doughnuts. The place exudes friendliness, Hub Theatre people are highly philosophical about what they are in the business for. They see themselves as spreaders of the gospel of "life," preachers of the essential goodness of man; that "man can and should be a determiner of life rather...
Students to the Sharks. Its helpful Yankee neighbor, moreover, as Thomas points out, proceeded with an unsettling mixture of high-minded amity and sheer avarice. Indeed, as Thomas presents it, the central failure of the U.S. in the turbulent and bloody story of the island was that it could neither take Cuba quite seriously enough nor leave it quite alone. After helping toss out the Spanish in 1898, it asserted the right to intervene in island affairs-through the notorious Platt Amendment, which was incorporated into the original Cuban constitution. Thomas argues that in fact the U.S. would have done...
...struggle that goes on by thinking of the poem not as a flawless finale, but as a stopping point on the way to perfection. The poem is the point at which our strength gave out." His essays themselves are best read in the same light. Each talks to its neighbor, reveals its genesis and goals, sometimes even addresses its reader. As a collection, rarely do they presume to speak the whole truth, and when they take an inadvertent wrong turn, it's only as a way of admitting that a developing talent is at the wheel. Sometimes Rosen gets himself...