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Yannatos’ youth and early adulthood were spent shrouded in music. In New York City, he attended the High School of Music and Art as well as the Manhattan School of Music. Both, he says, were among the most influential experiences in his life. His formal education in music did not end there, however, as Yannatos went on to study composition with the likes of French composer Nadia Boulanger and Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola and conducting with William Steinberg and Leonard Bernstein...
...achievement gap surfaces in early childhood and continues throughout high school, college, and adulthood, O’Connor said, citing a statistic that black men are more likely to be in prison at some point during their lives than to graduate from college. O’Connor described affirmative action as a “temporary bandage, rather than a permanent cure” to the racial tensions stemming from unequal representation in positions of power and leadership...
...Mexico and Central America. Now 68, he and his wife, who is Moroccan, divide their time among Mauritius, Nice and Albuquerque, N.M. He is modern literature's consummate expatriate: the constant in his work is a sense of displacement and alienation, of humanity from the natural world, of adulthood from the idealized homeland of childhood and of Western civilization from its own emotional and spiritual vitality. "We no longer have the presumptuousness to believe, as they did in Sartre's day, that a novel can change the world," Le Clézio has said. "Today, writers can only record their...
...wolves, only to return to society after years in the wilderness.As with many of their songs, “Furr” seems to have deeper implications than the lyrics superficially imply. Earley seems to be using the tale of the wolves as a metaphor for maturing into adulthood and accepting all the experiences that entails. The protagonist begins the story as a lost boy who spends six carefree years with a pack of wolves, until a young woman brings him back to society. He does not regret his wild years, but looks back on them fondly.The final line sums...
...here to have their heads examined. Literally. The five brothers from Orem, Utah, are the latest recruits to a giant study that's been going on in this building since 1991. Its goal: to determine how the brain develops from childhood into adolescence and on into early adulthood...