Word: stream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Existence is totally unliterary along the serene bayou in Covington, La., where Percy, now 55, lives with his wife and teen-age daughter. There is a stream of adolescents in and out of the house, who think that if "Dr. Percy" tried real hard, he might write something nearly as good as Love Story. Obviously unaware that any publisher in New York would swim Lake Pontchartrain for a novel by Percy, one of them recently confided that she baked him a cake with three candles when his third book was accepted for publication...
...could almost imagine the appropriate fade-ins and outs when my mother spoke so enthusiastically of serving Sunday brunch at the local USO, of the constant stream of boys that could be met on the endless series of trains she traveled between Boston, New York and Maine, of the year she spent in Washington-she tells of that too-haltingly translating Rumanian for some hastily assembled war office into a coded English she understood even less...
...great birds followed the rivers, the edges of forests, and the contours of mountains with great shadowing rocks. That much was clear and appropriate and irony avoided until once, coming down a mountain on a dirt road, saw a raven flying its own distance down with a small stream. When the water passed under the road, however, the bird faltered the air, and for that fraction of time made a tragic decision-one flap of the wings that shadowed across the car, a short glide to curve with the road down the mountain soon beyond us. Somehow, the bird following...
...might of the North, the South has seen its institutions revised, its voting rolls altered, its very existence as a culture threatened by an influx of carpetbaggers. The lawyers who brought civil rights cases to trial, the college students who came down to participate in sit-ins, the inexorable stream of Supreme Court decisions, all seem to have been parts of an occupation by outsiders sent down from Washington. (It is amazing that so many Northerners consider Washington to be in the South. To an Alabamian or a Tennessean, Washington is as much a part of the North...
After police reversed the week-old policy of refusing to allow demonstrators to pay collateral, a steady stream of persons were released throughout Monday night...