Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harrison is forcefully present on every page. Although she treats subjects as diverse a Francis Ford Coppola, Nadia Comeneci, a Vermont religious cult, racial tensions in New York and ethnic conflict in Yugoslavia, her book retains a logic and cohesion through Harrison's distinctive voice and sensibility...
...easy career. His first novel, The Object of My Affection (1987), won critical and popular esteem that only a tiny percentage of fiction -- first or otherwise -- ever attracts. He grew up in Woburn, a Boston suburb, the middle of three brothers. After the University of Vermont, he says, "I flip-flopped along," teaching, working at a Cambridge travel agency that was "full of wonderful, slow, late-'70s atmosphere...
...Freud took two pieces of Vermont folk wisdom and turned them into a science," says psychiatry professor Thomas Gutheil of Harvard medical school. "The first was, 'There's a whole lot more to folks than meets the eye.' This became known as the theory of the unconscious. The second was, 'Keep your mouth shut and you might learn something.' He changed the position of the doctor from that of an authoritarian giving orders to a more receptive role. Freud said, 'Let the patient talk and tell the story...
Cambridge's Most Wanted: A couple rents a car and sneaks away for the weekend without informing either set of parents. They get rear-ended in Vermont by a drunk escaped convict and have to call their folks from a police station...
...final victory against Vermont in a gamerescheduled from earlier in the season set thestage for the NCAA tournament...