Word: stegner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earth shakes and rolls under my feet," shrugs novelist Wallace Stegner, a 40-year resident of Los Altos Hills. "It's never particularly alarmed me." Brokers insist that San Francisco's booming real estate market has not subsided. "Obviously the quake was a drawback," concedes Katherine August of First Republic Bancorp, which specializes in loans for luxury homes. "But I don't think it will have a lasting effect on the market. We closed one deal the day after the quake." Says pollster Mervin Field: "Sure it shook people up. But look at the World Series game that was interrupted...
...Great Notion (1964) put him in the company of the young and the promising. He was a big man (a former wrestling champ at the University of Oregon) with a big talent. His family roots were in farming and logging; the rest is classic American tumbleweed. From Wallace Stegner's writing classes at Stanford, Kesey drifted to the San Francisco Bay Area, the playpen of countercultures. A bit young to be a founding beatnik and, ten years later, a little too bald to be a convincing hippie, he became "the Chief" to a tribe of hallucinating nomads. This stage...
...rebound performance in Sunday's final led the Green to its third consecutive Ivy title. Selections to the All-Ivy squad included: Dartmouth's Ann Deacon (21.3 ppg). Yale's Margy Hutchinson (14.7 ppg) and Regina Sullivan (7.0 ppg), Brown freshman Donna Yaffee (18.3 ppg) and Penn's Beth Stegner...
Although most of the top performers were veterans--Koziara, Deacon, Stegner. To masiewicz--the majority of the tourney participants were underclassmen. No team has more than two seniors on its roster, and of the 10 Brown cagers, six were freshman...
...Overall, we're disappointed but still pleased," said Stegner. It was the best we had ever done, and looking back on it, we had a really successful season...