Word: setting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...member CDA Board. Sixteen of the Board members are residents of the model neighborhood, elected for two-year terms. The remaining board members are drawn from various constituencies outside the neighborhood. The relevant portion of the CDA enabling legislation empowers the board to "hire, fire, select, and set the terms of employment for its staff, with the approval of the City Manager...
...production does have some good points, though. The credits appear against a background of beautiful Phiz-like sketches of Dickens' London. The sets are remarkable, especially Scrooge's gray, musty rooms, which made me want to sneeze just looking at the dust, and the vibrant, colorful street scenes on Christmas Eve. Some people dislike this romanticizing of London, which was a pretty grim place in the middle of the nineteenth century, saying that it's untrue to Dickens' very realistic descriptions of the place. This criticism just doesn't hold for A Christmas Carol, which is a moral fable...
Jack Johnson became legend in the eyes of the early twentieth century's young Negro because he rebelled against the suggested "race behavior patterns" set by Booker T. Washington in Atlanta in 1895, patterns which remained unchanged until mid-century. Said' Washington to the white...
...children. One day when he was walking along a road in British Columbia between climbs, a stranger stopped and offered to give Art a ride to Anchorage; Art had heard of the incredible beauty of the mountains around Anchorage, so he took the ride, and when he arrived he set out climbing. For a while he lived wherever people would have him, and hitched rides when he wanted to go somewhere...
...going to get anywhere. I had to getaway from a lot of what I've learned in writing courses when I wrote my book, and concentrate instead on how to tell a good story well. Writers today get so involved with other things that it's hard to set down experience simply as a story you want to tell...