Word: oakwood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flesh, however, this book is full of fervor. There's a lot of preaching, but sanctimony can't even creep in the back door. Richard's descriptions of an earlier search for the Lord, when he forsook show business to study the Bible at Oakwood College, are rich not only in regret but in comedy, much of it knowing. "The elders didn't like me taking my yellow Cadillac on the campus," Richard confesses. "They had discovered that I was a homosexual, and I resented the discovery . . . They forgave me, oh, definitely they did forgive...
...neighbor who waxes her driveway, probably the best known of Bombeck's nifties. It has a dead-on, chisel-it-on-my-tombstone truthfulness. But for the moment, no one paid much attention to her capering. She did a column a week, at $3 each, for the Kettering-Oakwood Times, a suburban weekly. Her desk was a piece of plywood supported by cinder blocks in the Bombeck bedroom. Her participation in the stately procession of English literature stopped before the family came home, and the shoe-leather minute steaks and ketchup