Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spanish composer; her mother, of French and Danish extraction, was a singer. They were separated and Anais and her two brothers moved to Manhattan where they were brought up by their mother. Anais Nin's first diary (1931-34), written in her early twenties when she lived in a suburb of Paris, deals with her friendships with Lawrence Durrell, Dr. Otto Rank, Henry Miller and his wife, June. Of all the diaries, this one is the most interesting. Her second diary (1934-39) is set in New York where she worked as an amateur psychiatrist under Dr. Otto Rank...
...Three terrorists, trying to blow up a police station in a Belfast suburb, planted bombs in an adjoining pub. "You have ten seconds to get out!" they shouted toward the bar, but that was not enough. The toll: three killed, 35 injured (13 of them women). The police station was virtually unscathed...
...another Belfast suburb, terrorists waved customers out of a pharmacy and a grocery on either side of a police station and then set off a bomb that killed a police inspector...
...their children will be exposed to what blacks have learned to hate?the rapes, ripoffs, robberies and dope addiction that have turned all too many inner-city schools into blackboard jungles where learning is less important than learning how to survive. Beyond that, whites who have moved to a suburb for the sake of its school system resent the fact that courts they have never seen and judges they did not elect are telling them that their children cannot use those schools...
...reason why they've got a right to come in here and tell me my kids can't use the school I bought and paid for," says Mrs. Mary Jane Marcozzi of Madison Heights, Mich., a Detroit suburb. She and her family will move if busing is brought to their community. ''My kids may be riding a bus," she says, "but it won't be to Detroit. In Detroit there's more dope, more robberies, more rapes, more of everything." That kind of reaction is not untypical of parents when they are first told that their children must be bused...