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...need protection-are rapidly breaking down and "extended longing" crucial to romantic love has been dealt a death blow by casual sex and the easy availability of birth control. Says Kinget: "The notions of agony and ecstasy traditionally associated with this kind of love have become meaningless-in fact, quaint...
Jimmy's rich roots have been unearthed by Debrett's, the famed English tracers of lineage. Pursuing genealogical research for another, undisclosed American Carter, Debrett's has tracked Jimmy's forebears back to 1361 and King's Langley, a quaint Hertfordshire village that is now a commuter suburb, 18 miles north of London. The prospering yeoman family at one time owned Jefferies farm in nearby Chipperfield (the Chip Carter connection?), and the King's Langley church has a brass plaque in memory of Ancestor John Carter, departed this world in 1588. Another Carter, also...
...Washington Correspondent Don Sider. The description of the pipeline itself, with its adjoining highway for trucks and its walkways for caribou, came from our Alaska stringer, Jeanne Abbott, who has traveled its entire length. She says the pipeline has transformed her state, making "the old casual frontier style a quaint backdrop to a fast-paced urban way of life...
...death in 1896, the man's reputation had shrunk to a few yards of chintz and flowered wallpaper. This forceful and articulate genius had receded into a green limbo where Pre-Raphaelite ghosts lisped harmlessly to one another. He was posthumously seen as a backward-looking fabulist, a quaint Victorian period piece. The visions of a great radical socialist were diminished and finally lost. Yet in life they absorbed his greatest energies. "There is no salvation for the unemployed," he wrote in 1887, "but in the general combination of the workers for the freedom of labor-for the REVOLUTION...
...Line trains that will shoot you down under Mass Ave are the top of Boston's subway fleet. The Red Line has the plushy-cushioned seats, and it has the milk run through the city from the local (elitist) seat of higher learning to the local pseudo-quaint suburban town of Quincy Center. The Red Line is good for long, dark rushes under the streets, but is also boring. Its best feature is on board--the spectrum of people riding between the Square and Boston. But beyond Washington station the passengers get boringly respectable and well-dressed...