Word: truants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State Rep. and City Councillor Saundra Graham loses the Democratic primary for a State House spot to Alvin E. Thompson, a little-known truant officer. She announces a "sticker" campaign for the November general election...
...State Rep. and City Councillor Saundra Graham, conceding her State House seat to truant officer Alvin E. Thompson after a November sticker campaign...
...concerned, for the novel's greatest strength resides in its least cinematic feature. Billy's language -- breathy, breakneck, massing phrases into great cumulus sentences that rumble with coming rough weather -- is totally unlike the short, syncopated rhythms of Ragtime. At first, readers may wonder how this young, confessed truant has run across terms like "dissynchronously" or where he picked up the poetic skills to describe a waterfall: "At the very bottom there hovered a perpetually shimmering rainbow as if not water but light was pouring and shattering into its colors." Doctorow eventually accounts for Billy's erudition, but by that...
...response, Graham has tried to portray Thompson, a truant officer with a long recond of community activism but no experience in elected office, as a friend of developers and an opponent of rent-control and affordable housing...
Thompson, a school truant officer and former assistant to the City Manager for community relations, defeated Democratic incumbent Saundra Graham by 49 votes in September's primary. Graham is running a write-in/sticker campaign against him to regain her seat...