Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard has indicated that it may file an amendment to its master plan to accommodate the building purchase and administration officials have said they want to set up a mechanism with the community to avoid a repeat of this summer's dispute...
...Summer People...
Sounds like a good book. Sounds like unconventional characters struggling to survive in a steadfastly conventional world. This is Marge Piercy's latest novel, Summer People...
...Piercy's occasional eloquence and skillful dialogue cannot compensate for Summer People's basic flaw: the lack of an interesting plot. The novel is engrossing enough for a beachside read, but in comparison to Piercy's earlier works, like Small Changes and Braided Lives, it disappoints. Those novels painted likeable, complex charcters, but Summer People offers only shadows of real people, moving in patterns too familiar to be truly interesting...
Collins said he hoped the House would recess for the summer before giving the proposals final approval and sending them to the Senate...