Word: placed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million details, the kind which it may take months of negotiation to work out, still remain. A place within the University will have to be found for most of Radcliffe's administrators. The budgetary system of the University may have to be revamped. Admission and scholarship plans for female Harvard undergraduates will have to be devised...
...these details will take time, and perhaps cause some anguish to the parties involved. But once the two colleges agree on the ultimate goal of merger, the details of the plan will inevitably--if not as speedily as some might wish--fall into place...
...Columbia, are careful to pronounce Don Quixote with the hard X. None possess the depth or complexity of a Herzog. Roth sums it all up in my favorite image from his first novel, Letting Go (1962), when one sunny day the middle-aged Fay Silberman "goes outside their place in South Orange and her husband is being driven all over the lawn in their power mower. He's dead in his seat, . . . a horrible thing. He crashed into a tree with that damn machine." Yup, having swallowed the American dream whole, Roth's Jews--like so many minorities before them...
...Bulow Sugar Mill Plantation ruins. Once there, we got out, and I jumped around for a while. Gayle followed, but she was always conscious of the fact that she was getting wet. I got my camera from the car and tried to get her to pretend the place was alive again, to yell and scream because no one else was there. But she felt uncomfortable pretending, and she couldn't be free when I pointed the camera at her. I told her the story of the plantation, but I guess it wasn't enough to make her stop and think...
Bulow was a slaveholder and he treated his slaves well. People who visited the plantation used to say how happy the place was. But sometime in the 1830's, Seminole Indians massacred Bulow and his happy slaves--destroying the coquina rock buildings. It's a national park now.Jeffrey B. Kahn.Main Street, Daytona Beach, Florida. December...