He proposes a simple ordinance requiring every landlord to live in the meanest apt. of the nastiest bldg. he owns, the actual choice to be determined by a committee, of tenants.
He was born on Broome St., a block from his present address; has been married 42 years, has lived in the same apt.
We lived in the same apt.
The Stories live in an apt. in Morningside Hts., have no children; he is an engineer, she is a librarian.
It has also been entered in the Second Edition of the O.E.D. Read & his wife Charlotte, live in a rambling apt. on Claremont Ave.
Yet while those particular mothers and dads put their pants on one leg at a time — so goes the rumor — and pay the same maintenance or common charges as everybody else in the building, can they really be viewed as just those people who live in Apt 4C or 12D?
Say you live in a highrise apt complex, dangerous neighborhood, parents work odd hrs.
For example, people living in the worst-run states were apt to have lower standards of living.
The obsessive aptness of this conceit is not lost on the reader, representing as it does not simply life lived in the shadow of Alzheimer's but life lived in the shadow of obsessively apt conceits.
Oliver, who lives in the Welsh coastal city of Swansea, isn't nasty, but he's a spy and a manipulator, often dishonest, not always brave, and, for all his intelligence, apt to misunderstand events and get into ridiculous situations.
