Word: personic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...different. "People in my own family told me I should vote. I said, 'I'm not going to vote' ... You see, I'd never voted until I was married to Jack ... and I thought, 'I'm not going to vote for any [other person] because this vote would have been his.' They were all rather cross at me. Not cross, but they'd say, 'Now please, why don't you? It will just make trouble.' Bobby said I should vote, and I said, 'I don't care...
Then everything turns inside out. She realizes that what interests people most about her is her bizarre and medieval past. The do-gooder work helps no one. Her lover's wife confronts her, screaming, "You're a good person." Isabel flees her whole new world. There will be another job and another man for her, but before that she must go back to Margaret Casey. It was not the old woman's spiteful tongue, her sloth, her mawkish novenas or her copies of the Sacred Heart Messenger that Isabel hated. It was that her father loved Margaret...
...generation gives over his life. I began by wondering what would happen." After the book was turned down by a couple of publishers, Gordon took it around to her Barnard teacher, Critic Elizabeth Hardwick. Her advice was to switch the narrative from the third to the first person. It took three months and transformed the book...
...president of his own firm, so Harvard decided its next treasurer would devote himself almost completely to University business. As part of the far-reaching financial reorganization that marked the early years of President Bok's administration, the corporation formed the Harvard Management Company, a 40-person operation located in downtown Boston that exclusively handles Harvard's portfolio. The deputy treasurer of Harvard, Walter M. Cabot '55, heads the company, which handles 90 per cent of the portfolio. The other 10 per cent of the portfolio is farmed out, as it were, to five smaller firms which have almost complete...
...removes any doubt. You start talking to one of the hard-hats, and find that he is more than willing to explain his concern about the Bakke case. "Bakke is not only affecting the schools, it is affecting us," he says. "Ours is a job that the average person could do without a high school diploma or college degree, and still make a decent wage. Right now, minority hiring in construction is based solely on quota systems. If the Court makes quotas illegal, then we lose about the only thing we have going for us a people that hasn...