Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed to the art collector from New York that he had tramped over every inch of the craggy Maine peninsula called Prout's Neck, but he could not find a trace of the famous resident he was looking for. Finally he spotted an old fisherman in rubber boots and battered hat. "I say. my man," he called, "if you tell me where I can find Winslow Homer. I have a quarter for you." "Where's your quarter?" snapped the old fisherman, and the stranger quickly handed one over. The fisherman took it, carefully dropped it into his pocket...
...suddenly quit New York and withdrew to Maine. Some said it was because he wanted to cut down on his drinking; others claimed he was miffed at the critics; Homer himself said it was to escape jury duty. Actually, his father had years before bought a cottage on the peninsula, and Homer fell in love with the place. He liked the reticent natives, who left him alone, and like them, he had little use for outsiders...
...impressed by the book's "contemporary relevance" and also by its short, swift sentences. In one gulp, he downed "this story of man trying to tell the truth," and it stuck with him when he went home from college last year to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. There he applied for a teaching job in the hamlet of Thompson (pop. 296), which has an odd hiring system-teacher candidates are asked to submit salary bids. Olson bid $3,790, and wound up with Thompson's fifth, sixth and seventh grades...
...Last week Circuit Court Judge George Baldwin threw out Olson's conviction. Any "lurid remarks" in The Stranger, ruled Baldwin, are "minor" compared to many in the Bible. But former Teacher Olson is still vainly trying to find a job of any kind in Michigan's Upper Peninsula...
...Japanese, Indians, Jews and British who were as divided on their feelings about the war as they were in their peacetime pursuits: "East was East, and West was West, and the twain did not meet except to exchange dollars or back horses." While guns boomed within earshot up the peninsula, life went on in Singapore much as before, with bars, brothels and theaters thriving. In typical shrewd Singapore fashion, people turned the war to their own advantage; fishermen rowed out before dawn to gather fish that had been stunned by high explosives...