Word: lives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wants his father's approval-and deeper still, he wants to be his father. In scenes that are amusing and astute, the son proposes marriage to his father's mistress and later tries to coax his mother into leaving the awful man and coming to live with...
...evidence that the nation's biggest economic dilemma is how to mesh full employment with price stability. The U.S. needs to find a more effective way of aiding its poor than simple economic expansion. The poor's gains may be only temporary, and inflation reduces the living standards of the seven-eighths of the population that do not live in poverty...
...going to leave it." His lament is becoming familiar among the thousands of Gulf Coast victims of last August's Hurricane Camille. Nothing remains of the crippled Ryals' modest frame home near the beach at Gulfport, Miss., and he and his wife now live in a leased trailer on their hurricane-stripped lot. His insurance company offered to pay only 25% of his claim, says Ryals, so he has hired a lawyer to sue for more. That may take considerable time, and in the interim the lender is threatening to foreclose the mortgage that covered...
...generations, most Americans have regarded tradition as something to be abandoned without much regret-like a too heavy saddlebag on the Donner Pass or a jammed rifle at Shiloh. That a man should live and die in the house where he was born, that he should take up his father's trade as a matter of course-these things have signified stagnation. Change has been our commonplace, our comfort and our proof of progress...
...pseudonym for a real agricultural village of 300 souls about 90 miles and-until recently-several cultural centuries removed from London. "On the face of it," remarks Ronald Blythe, "it is the kind of place in which an Englishman has always felt it his right and duty to live . . . patently the real country, untouched and genuine." Under this impression himself, Blythe, author of a novel and a number of television plays, moved nearby 14 years ago. Unlike other outsiders, he found much more than birds and quiet. Akenfield is the absorbing result. It is remarkable both as literature-a kind...