Word: villagey
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...Square was small and villagey," he said" Harvard Square belonged to Harvard and to the people who lived around it, who were mainly retired academics That liked the ambiance...
...Slave is essentially a kind of Greenwich Villagey talkfest. War has broken out between Negroes and whites, and with the sound of machine-gun and artillery fire in the near distance, a Negro military leader (Al Freeman Jr.) revisits his former white wife, who is now married to a white history professor. Ostensibly, he has come to see his two daughters, possibly to kill them, but mostly to gloat and watch the whites cringe before his oft-waved pistol. At one point, the professor asks if there will be more love or beauty or knowledge in the world after...
Setting up an axiom for herself, she decided never to stay at home and be depressed about not working. Instead she would go to the vast Manhattan offices of the M.C.A. talent agency and be depressed there. "I would put on my most Villagey clothes-and cry loud enough for everyone to hear. I'd talk about suicide and Freud. I made sure they knew me. I would act crazy. They sent me up for jobs to get me out of their office. Sometimes it was just a two-week stint on a soap opera, but I worked...
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