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A Hope in the Unseen
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- There it is: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.†
Chpt 5 *providence = resulting from God's intervention or plan; or lucky
- And she does, sitting on the couch in the TV's glow as her mind wanders far forward on a freshly cut path that now seems to pass through Providence, Rhode Island.†
Chpt 5
- Tomorrow he will begin packing for Tuesday's journey to Providence.†
Chpt 6
- Butch squints, clearly having never heard of it, and Cedric helps him along, "tt's in Providence, Rhode Island......It's Ivy League and all."†
Chpt 6
- Sometime today—a sunny, white-hot Tuesday at the end of August-Barbara will drive her son to what she imagines is the cool, green north: Providence, Rhode Island.†
Chpt 7
- Not wanting to spend money on long-distance calls to check on hotels in Providence, she went with what she knew-1-800-HOLIDAY-committing to a budgetstraining rate of $96 a night at the Holiday Inn in downtown Providence.†
Chpt 7
- Not wanting to spend money on long-distance calls to check on hotels in Providence, she went with what she knew-1-800-HOLIDAY-committing to a budgetstraining rate of $96 a night at the Holiday Inn in downtown Providence.†
Chpt 7
- They turn from Washington's beltway onto Interstate 95, the road that will lead, seven hours later, into downtown Providence.†
Chpt 7
- When he awakes, just before midnight, Barbara tells him that they're just a few miles from Providence.†
Chpt 7
- Cedric sings loudly, and Barbara, guiding the van into downtown Providence, sings along.†
Chpt 7
- It's nearly noon by the time they get to College Hill, a steep slope on top of which Brown sits like a cloud city above the gritty ethnic enclaves, Italian restaurants, and aging factories of Providence.†
Chpt 7
- Four students-one black, one white, one Asian, one Hispanic; two boys, two girls-hoist a large "Class of 1999" banner, brown with red piping, and lead a snaking line of chatting, mostly backpacked students through the ornate iron Van Wickle Gates, the uphill entryway to campus from downtown Providence.†
Chpt 7
- Stephan is eating a barbecued chicken sandwich with a friend, a thirty-something white guy who's visiting Providence.†
Chpt 8
- She haltingly recalls what it was like taking Zayd and Bear out to dinner on an impromptu "business trip" through Providence three weeks earlier.†
Chpt 9
- The rain is thunderous, flooding dirty downtown Providence as the night train from Washington arrives at noon on Saturday.†
Chpt 9
- Then she missed the train-Amtrak's 10:30 P.M. sleeper from Washington to Providence.†
Chpt 9
- "If you wanna know the truth," she whispers, betraying an up-the-hard-way East Providence patois, "we've been scraping it off the plate all night."†
Chpt 9
- Five blocks downwind of campus, just before the road curves to the gritty row houses of East Providence, is a pillared neo-Geor-gian mansion.†
Chpt 10
- I think it'd get me off College Hill and, like, it might be good to do researching at a school in Providence, which, I guess, is what you do in that class.†
Chpt 10
- He wants to ask if he's found a church in Providence, about how things are going in the dorm, but he feels uneasy prying into those realms.†
Chpt 10
- Two hours after the night sleeper from Providence arrived on Sunday morning, Cedric was already in church, with Barbara beaming and a hundred pairs of eyes on him.†
Chpt 11
- No, sir, ummrn, there aren't many churches up in Providence ...†
Chpt 11
- She found she missed him more than she expected when he left for college and, in the weeks between phone calls to Providence, often thought about why.†
Chpt 11
- Infrequent outings-to church, mostly, and one small family gathering at his grandmother's house-only ended up making him feel more obtuse, as people he'd sometimes known his whole life asked off-target, generally uninformed questions about his new life in Providence.†
Chpt 11
- His new life in Providence?†
Chpt 11
- But there's this class-an education fieldwork seminar, where he'll visit some school in the inner city of Providence, keep a journal, and write a couple of papers-that is sure to present its own distinct challenges.†
Chpt 11
- It's a part of Providence that Cedric has never seen, and he looks intently out of the bus's scratched, cloudy window.†
Chpt 12
- Everything was cordial, and it was nice to have him with her at church-everyone so proud of him—but the privacy zone that once extended to the borders of his small bedroom had grown to envelop a whole mysterious life in Providence.†
Chpt 12
- But Spring Weekend also draws townies from Providence, along with kids from colleges in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and other states along the East Coast, a crushing crowd of foreigners that alters Brown's social character.†
Chpt 13
- He has ventured a few times before to this part of Providence, just beyond Helaine's office and the Georgian brick homes of professors: fifteen or so square blocks of turn-of-the-century row houses and squat apartments, broken by clusters of sole proprietorships, jewelers, drugstores, and barbers, in buildings charging modest rent.†
Chpt 13
- I'm in Providence.†
Chpt 13
- He's thought a lot about Brown lately and about his desire to get back to Providence.†
Chpt 14
- The bulk of the reporting entailed spending much of the 95-96 academic year in Providence, Rhode Island, a time when a new friend-the full-living Dr. Cornelius "Skip" Granai-came forward with an ideal pied-a-terre near the Brown campus.†
Chpt A.N.
- Barbara planned ahead, this time, and the procession-including Cedric's sisters Leslie, Neddie, her son, Lawrence, Clarence Taylor and his wife-all descended on Providence.†
Chpt A.N.
- And, by the mid-summer after graduation, I began to understand how this job-helping to manage the Salvation Army office in Providence-made a kind of sense.†
Chpt A.N.
- Cedric decided he wanted to see some friends in Providence.†
Chpt A.N.
- I've heard he's working at the GAP in Providence.†
Chpt A.N.
Definitions:
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(1)
(providence as in: divine providence) resulting from God's intervention or plan; or lucky -- especially with regard to when something happened
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely providence may mean to prepare for the future. This is the sense that relates more directly to provident or improvident.