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...time as a day worker reminiscent of “Grapes of Wrath;” “Tully was hardly thinking now, his mind fixed on pain and chopping and a vision of quitting time. Seeing a man go to the edge of the field, he rose and went to the foreman, who was suspicious but gave his permission. In the tall grass beside an irrigation ditch, Tully squatted a peaceful moment.” The seeming foray into social realism is actually a movement into second-order subversion; “Fat City,” even...
Barnes was born on August 6, 1928, in St. Paul, Minn., and grew up there as the middle child of three boys. After graduating from Phillips Academy, Andover, he went on to Amherst to study English and rose to become president of his class and captain of the varsity football team...
...much, discouraging not only speculation but also business growth and consumer spending, which could precipitate a hard landing for the economy. So far, there's scant evidence for collapse. The latest Purchasing Managers Index numbers, released Sept. 1, show China's manufacturers are continuing to rally. The index rose to 54.0 from 53.3 in July, marking the sixth consecutive month the index has been in expansion territory (over...
...black metal sign serves as a makeshift tombstone, sticking out of the orange soil. But unlike many nearby graves, there are scattered rose petals over Agha-Soltan's site. As a visitor took out a camera, a man - perhaps an undercover security agent or merely an overzealous citizen - emerged and angrily shouted, "No pictures...
...During his early career days he was a Kennedy,” Ellwood said, “but by the end he was the senator.”FINDING HIS WAYEdward Moore Kennedy was born on February 22, 1932 in Boston, Mass., the youngest of Joseph and Rose Kennedy’s nine children. Kennedy followed in the footsteps of his father and older brothers by enrolling at Harvard in the fall of 1950. At the end of his freshman year, Kennedy was suspended after he was caught having another student take his Spanish A final exam in his place...