Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That seemed to go for her new school too. By enrolling in 108-year-old Thaddeus Stevens Elementary, nine blocks from the White House, Amy became the first President's child to attend a Washington public school since Teddy Roosevelt's son Quentin in 1906. While that was...
In her first day in her combined fourth-and fifth-grade class, Amy practiced handwriting, read Paul Reveres Ride and studied the relationship of inches, yards and meters. One of her classmates, Maurice Brown, reported that "she's real smart. That's because she writes real neat." Mrs...
Under pseudonyms the law student writes verse that gives credence to his comment 50 years later: "Some of one's early writings give one the creeps." Indeed they do, along with Stevens' revulsion for "niggers" and "little Jews." Yet these juvenile scrawls and racist stereotypes cannot long suppress...
By 1906 the young clerk notes: "Engaged at the office all day on a sonnet - surreptitiously." Two years later he writes his future wife: "It is such an odd thing that bright boys should be expect ed to be successful men . . . Brightness disillusions." So the bright boy becomes the plodder...
Holly Stevens is no Elliott Roosevelt, leaping in where Freud would fear to tread. But she does not shun legitimate speculation: Stevens' oblique, sensuous references and metaphors "bear deeply on a sexual relationship that may have some resemblance to that of my par ents, regardless of whatever literary connotations...