Word: plainfield
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Stephen Yelity, 39, was an accounting manager for Johnson & Johnson, when he decided to start his own computer software firm six years ago. Accurate Information Systems (1988 sales: $10.5 million), based in South Plainfield, N.J., is now the 65th largest black-owned firm in the U.S., according to Black Enterprise magazine...
Nisht Geferlach, which roughly means "no big deal" in Yiddish, wafts into the thick summer night from the steps of the white clapboard Grace United Methodist Church in Plainfield, Vt. The Yiddish folk music that originated in Eastern Europe carries across the lawn as children dance in ragged circles under the pines. Their parents sit on the old stone wall, clapping along with Lebn Zol Kolombus (Long Live Columbus), a staple of the old Yiddish theater that once thrived along New York City's Second Avenue. The music is as mystifying as it is exotic to most folks in these...
Nisht Geferlach is the only klezmer band in northern New England, the only one, Patt proclaims with a grin, to play at the Knights of Columbus in South Burlington. And Patt, who is chairman of the Plainfield board of selectmen, is surely the only elected official around here who spoke Yiddish until he was five...
Since his debut as a dramatist at the age of eight in North Plainfield, N.J., in a one-act drama starring himself, Henry has had two "abiding passions": the theater and writing. He reviewed plays for his high school paper and then for the Yale Daily News. He also took a few turns on the boards himself, acting in productions at the professional Yale Repertory Theater and in summer stock. But acting gave way to writing, on both national politics and cultural affairs, for the Boston Globe (where he won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for criticism), the New York Daily...
Many nurses and doctors have shown courage and compassion in caring for AIDS patients. But in big-city hospitals, patients are sometimes left unwashed, lying in their excrement, their food trays stacked outside the door. In Plainfield, N.J., Doris Williams, the foster mother of a four-year-old girl, recalls that nurses at first held and cooed over the child. "But as soon as we got the AIDS diagnosis, they were dressed up like 'Ghostbusters' in gloves and masks...