Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale Buys Town School...
...faculty members-- to live and bring up children. What is needed is a high-level Citizens' Committee that would include representatives of Harvard, M.I.T. and other groups in the city--the kind of University-community project that has served in many American cities to solve civic problems and improve town-gown relations. The City Council should move to set up such a committee, and the two local universities should name official representatives to it. This action would not solve any problems overnight, but in the long run it might help Harvard and Cambridge, who have to live and grow together...
Sweet Tea in Siberia. As a youngster, Fyodor was never allowed out with girls, and at his first sniff of a perfumed beauty in a St. Petersburg salon, he keeled over in a dead faint. He did better with the town doxies (later he even hinted darkly that he once raped a little girl), but it was not until after he had been jailed and exiled to Siberia as a subversive that he met his first major love...
Maria Isaeva was blonde, thin, neurotic and married. Her drunken clod of a husband was controller of the distillation and sale of liquor in Semipalatinsk, the Siberian border town to which Dostoevsky was sent as an army private after his release from prison. Soon the smitten 33-year-old soldier and the sensitive lady were holding hands and crying into each other's sweet tea while hubby sprawled in a drunken stupor on the divan. After Isaev died, they were married. But Maria was frigid, and Dostoevsky was soon complaining: "We're living so-so . . . The heart will...
Friedman added that his two friends both came from the same town as the girl they were trying to awaken. "Rich is famous down there for pulling this sort of a prank all the time," he said. Friedman is from New York, Rich and Harris from Haddonfield...