Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then consider the day that a tenant at 58 Garfield St., in a Harvard-owned building, awoke to find her apartment filled with "visitors" from Harvard's child day care center. They inspected the paint chips for lead poisoning, the closets for possible reconstruction, and informed her that her home might be converted to a day care center. She first thought their pronouncement was an unfounded rumor, until Harvard phoned to apologize for the oversight in the lack of notice, and verified the news...
...main objectives which Wyatt cite as the reasons for forming a corporation are to improve services to students living off campus and to tenants, and to help faculty who wish to live in Cambridge find housing. "We want one office to handle both of these major issues, so that when a new faculty member, student, or prospective tenant comes up to Harvard for the week-end, wishing to settle living arrangements, they will be able to go somewhere where they can find an answer," says Wyatt...
Pratt meanwhile riffles through the "picture palace" of her memory, superimposing an exotic, lapidary interior life on the grainy black and white surface of a public image. Dominant tenant in the palace is Maude's brother Qrlando, the grand, unconsummated passion of her life. Maude, in fact, has only consummated once, in an unbelievable case of mistaken identity. Thereafter, she is the professional virgin, indistinguishable from her Speed Graphic with its ever renewable unexposed plates...
...complaints come from farmers, who have a visceral attachment to the land. They are torn by conflicting feelings about foreigners who offer premium prices for their acreage. Farmers often sell out, only to wind up leasing the property back from the new, absentee owners and working for them as tenant farmers. When farm children grow up, they must sometimes seek other occupations, because land prices are so high that they cannot afford the life their parents led. Complains Vernon Conrad, vice president of California's Fresno County farm bureau: "Buying by outsiders is taking away the family-based farming...
...historic accumulation of fiction and fantasy has always confounded the analytic powers. Consider James Agee. The presence of a handful of tenant farmers moved him to an epic work of genius; yet, in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, it is easier to locate Agee than the not quite so exciting reality of rural Alabama...