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Part of my job as a small-town newspaper editor is to field complaints, many of which are similar to those noted in your story. I find that the most difficult thing is to narrow the objections down to specifics. Plenty of people tell us what we should not do, but few let us know what they want...
...Typical small-town America? Yes and no. Gramercy Park is a bit too comfortable to be considered typical, and it has distinguishing characteristics one would not find in most small towns. An artistic tradition, for one thing. Over the 150 years of its existence the area has been home to William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Horace Greeley. Herman Melville lived out his life here, embittered by the public's dismissal of Moby Dick. Stephen Crane finished The Red Badge of Courage in his place on 23rd Street. Nathanael West, author of The Day of the Locust worked...
...land. Once it was the Johnny-come-latelys who disfigured nature and tamed the wilds, but the case is now reversed. The environmentalists sweep into town from the cities, demanding that nothing change. Movements to create historic districts are started by ruburban newcomers who want codes to protect the small-town flavor that drew them there in the first place. But longtime residents proclaim their right to add vinyl siding and aluminum tool sheds to their property. The ruburbs, after all, are a free-fire zone, where aberrant aesthetics are one of the pleasures. It is not, after all, Sunnybrook...
DIED. Jean Troisgros, 56, perfectionist chef of France's nouvelle cuisine; of a heart attack while playing tennis; in Vittel, France. Troisgros and his younger brother Pierre turned their small-town family restaurant in Roanne into a mecca for traveling gourmets. Rejecting the heavy tradition of French haute cuisine, with its sumptuous dishes and rich sauces, the Troisgros brothers highlighted the freshness of ingredients used in such elegantly simple recipes as their classic salmon with sorrel sauce and the eclectic coupe-jarret, which consists of five different meats cooked in a kettle. Dashingly handsome, Troisgros eschewed the globetrotting celebrity...
Mondale's sly question drew a roar of approval from an audience of black ministers, small-town mayors and businessmen. Officially, they were meeting to discuss issues such as education, jobs, black voting rights and voter registration. But the gathering turned into a pep rally for a black presidential candidate, with Jackson, 41, at the top of the ticket. His speeches were interrupted by chants of "Run, Jesse, run." Delegates sported buttons with Jackson's face and the I AM SOMEBODY tag line he coined and made famous. "If not now, when?" demanded Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary...