Word: abroadly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Which is what Nory does, everlastingly. Without a discernible beginning, middle or end, Baker's delightful change of pace can be summed up as: an American girl abroad looks around and thinks. Her observations and reflections are presented in 54 short, numbered sections. Reading them is similar to listening to a series of piano etudes, each with its own theme playfully developed. Baker's neat trick is to make the difficult task of conveying an emerging childhood consciousness look easy and innocent. There are no yucky parts. As Nory, pretending to be her mother, says, "There are, it is true...
...level, the decision was easier than you might think. I originally wanted to study abroad and I joined the tens of people in the Office of Career Services Study Abroad meetings (in comparison with the literally thousands of juniors at other schools spending time abroad and getting credit). Yet soon I felt a semester would not be enough, given Harvard's strict curricular requirements abroad. And so, approved program and all, I am starting down a different road...
...real community at Harvard. It may sound strange, but I am learning that when people ask about your paper or your summer plans, they mean it. My friends stop me in libraries and in dining halls and ask hopefully about my plans, even when the minor obsession of going abroad has escaped my mind. Perhaps you can't point to the community in any one place. But people do ask about you, care where you are and what you are doing...
...Roth is enjoying the country as a tourist/researcher, the other is plotting a Jewish exodus from Israel ("diasporization"). Together, the two halves of the single Roth show the complexity of the American Jew's attitude toward the Holy Land: it is wonderful to visit, but I prefer to live abroad...
Surely, tourists who travel abroad want to respect and value the people in the lands they visit. Thus the endless debates over "Asian values," democracy and the value of constructive engagement should ring hollow when compared with the simple, sincerely expressed wishes of the Burmese: they do not want tourists as long as tourism undermines their democratic aspirations. And with the current level of military control over the burgeoning tourist trade, visitors to Burma cannot but hurt the people and land they are visiting. In any case, I cannot imagine that staying in hotels built with slave labor makes...