Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be James Francis Redmond, 51, who now heads a peaceful school district of 9,000 students in Syosset on Long Island's North Shore. Syosset's affluent residents have been willing to help pay $1,220 per student in taxes, give Redmond a salary of $32,500, and devote much time to community committees that he has set up to consult on school problems. "I don't believe that school decisions should be left to the professionals," he says...
...Harvard Water Polo Club, wet off a 2-4 season, has elected Richard Smith '67 of Kirkland House and Springfield, Ohio, president for next year; Jan Rus '69, of Matthews Hall and La Hambra, Cal. vice-president; James Babcock '67 of Kirkland House and Minneapolis, Minn. treasurer; and Bruce Shore, lecturer on Astronomy secretary. This year the waterballers topped Brooklyn Polytech, 12-7, and M.I.T., 9-5, but drowned under Queens, Army, Fordham, and St. Francis...
...Girl-Getters is a dispassionate study of youthful drifters at a British seaside resort, glimpsed, in effect, through bloodshot eyes. When a British moviemaker wants to spell out the middle-class vapidities rejected by youth, he naturally heads straight for the shore where "the grockles" turn out in force. Grockles are the holidaying suckers of all ages, gathering junk in shabby souvenir shops, having their pictures taken, and eating anything, says one young cynic, "so long as it's with chips...
...world, dashed off a suicide note in classical Greek and then, as a mauve moon rose, swam wistfully out to sea. Not far out, however, his reveries of picturesque quietus were interrupted by a slight sting on his shoulder. A jellyfish! Shuddering in revulsion, he floundered to shore, jumped into his clothes and hurried home...
...plots generally straddle the line of plausibility. Like most of his eight other novels, The Monument depends on readers who are willing to believe the unbelievable. Its story deals with a campaign to build a Korean War memorial in Hawley, a little inbred New England town on the Atlantic shore. Even before the selectmen vote on it, this modest proposal nourishes more intrigues than the Orient Express and incites more violence, including suicide and murder, than a Mafia convention. None of the characters ever fully escape their enormous and restrictive obligations to the story. But for all that, the reader...