Word: note
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, I note that Miss Grossman also complained about her prejudiced friends who made comments about "those stupid Mexicans." Once again, I must note I have rarely, if ever, heard such sentiments expressed in California. Southern California, being the home of immigrants from all over the world, is probably the region the most free of prejudice in the entire country. Perhaps the bigots Miss Grossman ran into were Easterners. They were, after all, her friends. Saied Kashani...
...merchant marine ship from Saigon to Oregon; in Guadalajara, Mexico, writing 400 pages of a novel; back to Yale, then dropping out a second and last time to concentrate on his writing. The book was now 1,400 pages. "It started out as a boy's suicide note -- not that I was going to commit suicide, but I was very depressed. It was Jack London- type experiences in a Joycean style. Totally insane, with great passages of lyricism here and there. I thought it was the best thing since Rimbaud. And when Simon & Schuster rejected it, I gave...
Even New Jersey has had occasion to disavow the Giants. At the final game of 1978, considered the low point in a post-'50s depression, an indignant little airplane buzzed Giant Stadium towing an ultimatum: 15 YEARS OF LOUSY FOOTBALL; WE'VE HAD ENOUGH. The comeback begun on that note has at last brought the Giants to Pasadena, where they are the bright and favored stars of Super Bowl XXI (also featuring the Denver Broncos...
...offered a bit of curious proof. A secretary, he recounted, had written a get-well poem ("Your excellent condition is a model for us all/ For it is strength and wisdom that has our nation standing tall") and sent it to Reagan. He sent back a hand- written note illustrated with a self portrait. "It shows he's up there ((in his living quarters)) doing things," the adviser claimed. "It shows that he's extremely responsive and willing to get down into the details...
...next day with Shawn at the Algonquin Hotel, the fabled watering hole of such bygone New Yorker wits as Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker. The two men had never met. As they settled at Shawn's regular table, Gottlieb gave Shawn his reply to the petition, a three-sentence note that expressed sympathy but declared his intention "to take up this new job." As Gottlieb toyed with his omelet and Shawn ate an English muffin, the two decided that Gottlieb should take over in mid- February, after a week spent working with Shawn...