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...Hoyt was hit by a ball, a spectator jumped up on the bleachers and shouted out, "Hurt is hoyt!" Over the years, as they grew more prosperous, New York's Irish scattered into the affluent suburbs. Blacks and Puerto Ricans have all but taken over such areas as Williamsburg (formerly Williamsboig) and Greenpoint (Greenpernt) in northern Brooklyn, where Brooklynese was born. At the same time, generations of Brooklyn schoolteachers struggled more or less successfully to hammer normal English into their pupils' heads...
Perhaps Thomas Jefferson's Monticello or colonial Williamsburg are not the places from which to view modern presidential might. But for Jefferson and his contemporaries, power was never the final joy. The ultimate pleasure was to be back among the places and people they loved. Jefferson's reward for service was not cheers or ceremonies but the opportunity to perfect his thoughts, use the language well, design a graceful structure, plan a garden ("No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden...
...trouble to some degree, just as every President has felt compelled to speak piously in public, regardless of what he may have truly felt inside. Lyndon Johnson, for instance, was denounced from the pulpit for his conduct of the Viet Nam War when he went to church in historic Williamsburg...
...crisis caused by the quadrupling of oil prices orchestrated last fall and winter by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The threat that these increases pose to world financial mechanisms absorbed much of the attention of bankers and government officials from the U.S., Europe and Japan who gathered in Williamsburg, Va., last week, but their deliberations produced no clear solution...
Other topics discussed at the Williamsburg conference...