Word: nonas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...position, according to Director of Student Financial Services Nona D. Strauss reflects little more than a desire to uphold fairness and the law, and not any desire to keep customers from enjoying the benefits increasingly lavished on some card holders based on their level of purchases...
...gotten a lot of calls," said Nona D. Strauss, director of student financial services. "We put a choice on our phone system that said, 'If you're calling about your bill, call the billing office.' The Billing Office had a ton of people answering phones and responding to questions...
...strength of the program is that the very best people in a given field-from any place in the country-can receive support and take it where they feel they will get the best education, as opposed to picking the very best people on one campus," said Nona D. Strauss, director of student financial services...
...fitting that the heroine of the author's fine, quietly melancholy second book, Naked Sleeper (HarperCollins; 235 pages; $23), should share her predecessor's vocation, for she too seems compelled to intensify her sense of disconnect. Though Nona never leaves her native Manhattan, she teaches English to lonely foreigners who, just like her, are lost souls in a land of plenty. Abandoned as a child by her father, Nona at middle age finds herself in what is for her an uncomfortable place: a safe, happy marriage to a man who probably won't leave. Like a girl in a beautiful...
Save for occasional tedious digressions--four whole paragraphs on Nona's yoga breathing--Nunez limns Nona's search for self with some impressively elegant writing, which gives this book its true appeal. Of the love letters Nona receives, Nunez writes, "They were carried away not by love but by the vocabulary of love, the adjectives and verbs of love, one smooth golden word following another, like honey dripping from a spoon." For the most part, Nunez's prose flows just as fluidly...