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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hinsdale! Village of my childhood, village of my father, my aunts and uncles, my grandparents; village physically an idyl, socially a snakepit of ostentation and hypocrisy. Place from which I and my seven cousins and all our friends fled as soon as we were able; where once my father's friend won a golden Cadillac at an American Legion Fourth of July carnival and moved to a better part of town to keep up with his car. To see a page devoted to Hinsdale in TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 23, 1977 | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...have to shove the program right on the fans," he says. "You make it so they have to go to the IAB. Having a winner and getting promotion you could make that place into a snakepit...

Author: By Bill Scheft and Robert Sidorsky, S | Title: Crusading Cager Jeff Hill Prods Administration | 3/23/1977 | See Source »

Question: When does a college hockey arena become a snakepit into which only the most fearless of foes may travel on penalty of death should they emerge with a victory over the heavily-supported home team...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Tom Columns | 2/20/1976 | See Source »

...would tolerate on a more traditional newspaper, simply because they resent anything that smacks of hierarchy? Real Paper staff members recall instances of pitched battles waged over trivial matters, and many cite a sort of combat fatigue as a reason they now want to sell. "The place is a snakepit, it's awful," says...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: Crawling Out of the Snakepit at the Real Paper | 5/7/1975 | See Source »

...always good to get out of that snakepit with a win. In fact it's always good to get out of that snakepit--as fast as possible. It's a dull ride back to Cambridge, but a stop at Salem's "Atomic Subs" (McDonalds was closed) can spice things up. And I do mean "spice...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Rock Steady | 3/2/1974 | See Source »

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