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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rural culture was never as kindly and not always as pleasant as legend would have it. But necessity forced a concern for family and community and an interdependence that as often as not subdued meanness and selfishness. A certain virtue and hope were required for survival...
...learned the printing trade in those years and also the discipline of small-town culture, so burdensome to Minnesota writer Sinclair Lewis but only occasionally irritating to me. I often took my place feeding the ink-caked flatbed press that would lunge back and forth printing the pages. Each press run took nearly three hours, sheet by sheet. There was no escape. All eyes bored into my back. Patience was required, craftsmanship demanded, good humor expected. On hot summer nights, after taking the papers to the post office, I would stand with my Uncle John at the makeup stone...
Your name has often been linked in the press to the bombing of the American Marines in Beirut. Were you involved in that...
...easily treatable disease--rickettsial pox--is transmitted from tiny parasitic mites that dwell in the nests of mice, Alpert said. Even after an effective extermination program removes or kills many mice, these mites often leave the nests and bite students, he said...
Criticism of the neighborhood has often been tinged with anti-Harvard sentiment...