Word: salem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SALEM FRIGATE-(500 pp.)-John Jennings-Doubleday...
...autumn of 1836 . . . a married lady of my acquaintance . . . proposed to me that on her return [to New Salem, III. from a visit to Kentucky') she would bring a sister . . . upon condition that I would engage to become her brother-in-law with all convenient dispatch-I . . . accepted. . . , In due time [the lady] returned, sister in company sure enough-This stomached me a little. . . . I knew she was oversize, but she now appeared a fair match for Falstaff. . . . I could not for my life avoid thinking of my mother . . . from her want of teeth, weather-beaten appearance in general...
...means next to nothing; there were hundreds of other young New Englanders in the 1820s and '30s who grew up with a similar inheritance. The key is hidden somewhere in the peculiarities of Hawthorne's boyhood or in those of his years of self-imposed solitude in Salem. As a child, Hawthorne was temporarily crippled. His widowed mother was a virtual recluse and patently neurotic. At 21 he returned from Bowdoin College to Salem and himself developed into a kind of neurotic recluse. In his "haunted chamber" in Salem he sat writing and rewriting his early stories...
...college voted to move from Wake Forest (pop. 1,800), in the eastern part of the state, to Winston-Salem, the Camel capital. The lure: a free campus-probably "Reynolda," the 300-acre estate of Tobacco Heir (and Presbyterian) Zachary Smith Reynolds*-and $350,000 annual income. The college will keep its name and Baptist independence. The catch: North Carolina Baptists must raise $4 million to pay for the new buildings in Winston-Salem. Last week Wake Forest's Board of Trustees and the Baptist General Board voted that it could be done-and talked enthusiastically of a campus...
...paint the way he feels, Burchfield has tried hard to remember the country around Salem, Ohio, where he was raised-instead of the bleak surroundings of suburban Buffalo, where he now lives. His house was on the edge of Salem, and the edge of the woods. When he was eight, Burchfield knew how to tell trees apart, and how to people their shadows with figures he had read about in fairy tales. Four years at the Cleveland School of Art and a job with an automobile-parts company were not enough to change him. His first important paintings...