So a year later, when the phone call came that the brother-in-law of the son of her former business partner needed some office help, it was worth the daily drive to urban Hoboken for my mother, who had seldom driven far beyond the borders of suburban Essex County.
Interviews with students and teachers at Peking University, as with experts on China here and abroad, draw a layered portrait of today's students: disinclined to protest, but also lacking the economic grievances that helped ignite protests in 1989; proud of China's achievements and flocking to the Communist Party, but seldom driven by ideology.
On the bottom foot or so of the sides of the Montana, Pontiac offers taupe- or charcoal-colored plastic cladding -- a feature commonly used on $40,000 sport utilities to make them seem utilitarian, even if they are seldom driven off-road.
In contrast, Pettitte, who lived quietly with his family in Westchester during his nine seasons with the Yankees, seldom even drove into Manhattan much less got into trouble there.
Over the course of a week in Apulia, Sylvie and I drove and drove, seldom sure exactly where to stop, because Apulia doesn't make it obvious.
So seldom do I drive these days and so special is the experience that I still get a little canine jolt of excitement whenever someone rattles keys.
He so seldom needs to drive that when he does go to retrieve his car in his building's garage, he said, "I always forget where I parked it".
It was said that he had a Rolls-Royce brain, though his privileged background meant that he seldom had to drive it on anything other than flat roads, and he himself was always happy to acknowledge his good fortune in being taught by some of the best brains of his generation.
While rock 'n' roll was fading into lightweight pop and ballads, British rock groups at clubs and local dances, heavily influenced by blues-rock pioneers like Alexis Korner, were starting to play with an intensity and drive seldom found in white American acts.
He parked it outside the Groucho Club, but was seldom sober enough to drive it anywhere when he left.
