Word: sams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THERE HAS to be an exception, else there'd be no one to tell the story of New Haven, no longer new or a haven. His name is Sam Poynter, a writer of departmental reports, but a writer nonetheless, to whose eyes "emotions and surprises are wired." Which is why he needs more space. A writer has to see sometimes at middle or long range, and can't be forever "thrilled and cross-eyed...
...short of crushing the individuals within it. The individual petitions are the usual: one person is asking for a job change, another fot increased protein allowance, yet another wants her grandson, who is among 400 New Haven children chosen to learn to read, to learn instead some "useful" skill. Sam's petition, since it involves the most basic Acceptance, is a threat to these people's notions of security. There is a wave of anger at his impudence, a chant of "get but of the line." Sam almost acquiesces, but someone in the line has an attack of "waitline sickness...
...weakness has been revealed. He was ready to give up under the pressure of the chant. He is no committed revolutionary. When Sam finally addresses the opaque petition window, his ominous "petition for more space" becomes a simple request to increase his sleeping area by one foot in width and one foot in length to the maximum allowed by law. He complains, "I expend so much physical and psychic energy pushing against people and limits that I am always too tired to do quickly the things I need and want to do." The window replies. "True for everyone, Petition denied...
...realize you have to leave a message?" the person said. "Sam Wee gets over one hundred phone calls every day, and he can't keep track of them unless they're on the recording...
...SAM WEE IS from Wichita, Kansas, as is his roommate Don Nicholson, this year's secretary general of the Harvard National Model United Nations. In a suite adjoining Wee and Nicholson's, lives Clark Pellett, from Atlantic, Iowa, who was secretary-general of last year's Harvard Model United Nations along with Jarius DeWalt, who is from a small town in New York. Twice every year they and some other Harvard students run a mock United Nations conference for high school and college students from across the country, arranging and presiding over four days of conferences and social events that...