Word: seemly
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...counties. Thus fears that poor people would suffer drastically may not materialize. The legislature did decree, however, that there be no increase in welfare payments unless public employees also get a pay hike. Brown has already asked for a freeze on state salaries. Since it would seem to be political suicide for lower-level officials to vote increases for themselves at a time when the taxpayers are screaming so loudly for less spending, welfare payments probably will be frozen...
That would have been particularly painful, because Lykes last September closed some facilities in and near Youngstown, Ohio, eliminating 5,000 jobs. Local church and civic leaders hope to reopen the mills by collecting funds from people in the area and getting Government-guaranteed loans, but their chances seem slim and will be unaffected by last week's decision...
...trick is how to walk on water without, as V.N. warned, "descending upright among staring fish." Great novelists are born with the knack. Good journalists must master it. Jane Howard is a good journalist. In fact, she is one of the best of those soft-stepping Austenian observers who seem to glide easily over a situation or a subject without leaving a distorting wake. "My way," she writes, "is to use my intuition as a compass, go where I feel welcome, stay as long as I can manage to, meet whoever is around, help them do what they are doing...
...conglomerate of patricians in Manhattan. There are Jewish families dispersed in the South and Midwest, farm families plowed over by vast interstate highway systems, single-parent families, and homes where both parents are homosexual. There are also extranuclear families-communes, and open households- whose relationships and attitudes often seem like exotic and short-lived particles created in cyclotrons. A band in Texas "went up in a blaze of sexual hyperactivity and recrimination after about a year." A group organized around devotion to carrot-bulgur-lecithin surprise cake unglued when Frito crumbs were discovered in their beds. At an ashram, Howard...
Equally shocking are the voices of the hoodlums. They seem at first to be speaking another language, easily recounting acts of aggression and mayhem that might give even hardened criminals pause. Asked why an ice pick was his preferred weapon in a previous assault, a thin, pale, seemingly fragile boy chuckles and answers, "Internal bleeding." The more they talk, the less monstrous they become: "I wouldn't mind goin' to school if I knew how to read . . . My dreams scare me ... I want somebody to know I been here . . . I can't do nothing...