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Word: stegman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brevity, Uncle captures the duration of a life: the young man loitering in coffee shops and listening to radical debates; his flourishing business career; his later years, when he lies beside a pool in Miami pondering the ultimate adversary: "If the American dream ever lived on Stegman Parkway, it entered Irv's heart as an unacknowledged optimism about the mechanics of time." Only in old age does he learn to mourn his own mortality. "We are making something out of nothing," he cries. "And what we are making is no good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irving's World | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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