Word: enid
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...unemployment rate went down, so I guess they all came here," said Enid Sneidman of Matted Memories Jewelry, as she danced to the music of a nearby band. "People are buying, and that's surprising, given the economic news...
...fans need not apply here. The college football title, like Miss America or the Oscars, is chosen by "experts." The 60 A.P. voters represent such influential journals as Pennsylvania's Tarentum Valley News Dispatch, Oklahoma's Enid News & Eagle and the Moscow Idahonian-Daily News, but no papers based in New York City or Los Angeles. The U.P.I. board comprises 50 college coaches, but its membership also borders on the capricious. Tim Rose of minor Miami (Ohio) is a voter; Dennis Erickson of major Miami...
Another church-affiliated institution, Phillips University in Enid, Okla. (enrollment: 960), was approached last spring by Kyoto Institute of Technology, which offered $24 million for the entire school. Phillips' president, Robert Peck, refused. "Colleges are not bought and sold," he says. "We're not Quaker Oats." But he was under intense pressure to accept the offer from Enid's town fathers, who in March 1988 paid $14.3 million to keep the campus afloat, and now charge the university rent. As a compromise, Peck let Kyoto underwrite a summer program for up to 50 Japanese students...
...generation of the '50s was not dubbed "Silent" for nothing. Understandably, Enid does not tell anyone about her taboo love life. She had even failed to leave a suicide note. In contrast to later decades, the Eisenhower years did not encourage the confessional style, or discussions about teenage sexuality and domestic forms of statutory rape...
...Enid Stevick is clearly intended to be a victim of her time, but she is also a willing prisoner of passion. One of Oates' main subjects has always been the irrational nature of intense feelings. Love, says Warren near book's end, "seems to carry with it no knowledge." The same could be said of lust, fear and anger, emotions that are generously apportioned to the novel's characters. The effect is dramatic but limiting, like old-fashioned literary naturalism in which free will is swamped by determinism and animal instincts...