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...wires and networking. Nobody yells "Carp-e-e," although choicer epithets are often used for a dilatory night editor. The practice of releasing unpublished stories to the public press, which had already been suspended once James wrote his article, died a natural death from old age somewhere in the 1920s or 1930s, its grave unmarked. But candidates still botch stories and give "wonderful excuses," and the flavor of a real newspaper is still there...
...daughter so fiercely that she killed her rather than allowing her to be taken back into bondage by her pursuers won the Pulitzer Prize. It was followed in 1992 by Jazz, in which the love of a man for a younger woman turns violent in the Harlem of the 1920s. The form of love anatomized in Paradise is a hunger for security, the desire to create perfection in an imperfect world...
...1920s Weegee was working for a photo agency that supplied the morning papers with shots of arrests, car accidents, fires and such from the night before. In the mid-'30s he became a free-lancer. Equipped with a police-radio scanner in his car and the most wonderfully named of all old cameras, the Speed Graphic, he chased down the city at its most scabrous, a place where the chief pastimes were groping and bloodletting and where the main thing to remember was that only the strong survive. Eventually he was also a contributor to the liberal daily PM, which...
However, these conflicts need not exist. When PBHA is strong, as it presently is, the organization itself demonstrates that we don't need to have warring tribes. Through participation in the settlement house movement in the 1920s, during the activism of the 1970s, and with the new college volunteerism of the 1990s, PBHA and a host of other public service programs at Harvard and Radcliffe have attempted to bring the "must do mores" and the "stop it all nows" together. Some programs can accomplish this by including both service and action (the Small Claims Advisory Service simultaneously provides advice...
...Yard also lacked a centerpiece until the 1920s, when the John Harvard statue was pulled out of its original location near Memorial Hall and reset in its current place, under the flags of University Hall...