Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rose Chu Coshocton, Ohio...
...free ride. Another Californian, Mick McMick, urged that Los Angeles be put on "a revolving 'lazy Susan' for easy access all around." John Cody of Lynnfield, Mass., proposed a suction-tube system to "zip" commuters from suburbia to their city offices. Ed Hunter of Dayton, Ohio, felt that giant slingshots hi the suburbs could catapult commuters into outsized baseball catcher's mitts downtown: "Use baby oil to keep the mitt soft," he advised...
...last, I've found myself able to come here to Harvard, that grand University," one of the heroes of the novel complains bitterly. "I've come here from, Ohio, from Peru, Ohio, and what do I find? Do I find myself studying under one of those professors who make Harvard what it is, one of those professors I am spending time and money to study under? No, I am put under a young boy, a man no older than myself, a mere dude. Do you suppose he is competent to teach me anything...
...story is only superficially about pedagogy, however. It follows two Ohio high school teachers--George Groch, a sullen, conceited would-be poet, and his flighty and impressionable fiancee, Jessie Deagle--through six turbulent weeks here. They are both enrolled in an English class, Groch because he wants to come into full poetic bloom and Deagle because she wants to be near Groch. But their teacher, a scholarly and enormously self-centered young dandy named Alfred Honore Pallantine, comes between them. Jessie, taken with his polish and crudition, falls in love with him, ditches Groch and spends most of her time...
...moving-walkway trip through the cars too brief (the walkways have since been slowed). Attendance was erratic: only 10,800 visitors per day turned up during eight days in Boston, but more than 40,000 descended on the train during a 2½-day stop last month in Archbold, Ohio...