Word: portlands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bernstein, who served as Chairman of the school board of Portland, Maine, added that she has "always had an interest in education, and in Harvard in particular...
...there he didn't want to go anywhere." Jobs lasted only a semester but hung around the campus wandering the labyrinths of postadolescent mysticism and post-Woodstock culture. He tried pre-philosophy, meditation, the I Ching, LSD and the excellent vegetarian curries at the Hare Krishna house in Portland. He swore off meat about this time and took up vegetarianism "in my typically nutso way." One temporary result, say friends, was skin tinted by an excess of carotene to the color of an early sunset...
First-class poverty law programs still exist-in Portland, Ore., in Minneapolis, in Palm Beach County, Fla.-but they all enjoy sturdy funding from local government. Many of the more embattled programs are trying new techniques to hold the line. The Atlanta Legal Aid Society has new 45-min. instructional videotapes for its clients. Explains Director Steven Gottlieb: "We show them how to handle dispossession, how to negotiate with landlords, how to do things for themselves in court if they have to." Leaders of the Florida bar are trying to make it mandatory for members to give 25 hours...
...reality that is routinely forgotten when people try to figure out the best places to live. That game goes on continually. In the 1970s the Midwest Research Institute of Kansas City put Portland, Ore., and Sacramento at the top of the heap, after a "quality of life" survey of 243 U.S. metropolitan areas, and Birmingham and Jersey City at the bottom. This year a book called Places Rated Almanac scored the "livability" of 277 U.S. urban areas; it nominated Atlanta and Washington and its environs as most livable, with two Massachusetts areas-Fitchburg-Leominster and Lawrence-Haverhill-bringing...
...some callers don't just call "The Larry King Show" for its guests. Like any talk show host. King draws his share of weirdos. Usually he cuts them off. But he has a handful of regulars, such as "The Portland Laugher," a caller who never speaks, but only laughs into the phone. "I'll say, 'Sir, what do you think of President Reagan's economic plan?' and The Laugher practically passes out from laughing," King writes. One wonders whether the listeners do, too. Another regular labels himself "The Syracuse Chair," and claims to be the voice of the empty chair...