Word: agedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It was an absurdist nightmare, a story that all but defied the Western imagination. A middle-aged author, born in Bombay but for many years resident in London, writes a long, sardonic novel, by turns philosophical and comic and fantastic. In the book's opening scene, two middle-aged Indian...
If Darman's negotiations with Congress present serpentine challenges worthy of a Kafka plot, his personality has the dense texturing of a protagonist in a Nabokov novel. Contradictions little and large adorn his life. He owns two racehorses but never bets on them because he doesn't gamble. Last year...
He stayed for 11 months--and in his mind, at least, he's never left. Kremer is founder and executive director of World Teach, a non-profit Harvard group that has sent 175 college-aged students to teach in rural Kenya and China since 1987. To hear the Winthrop House...
The real forces of revolution were anger, frustration -- and demography. In the U.S., rage focused on the impersonal machinery of a military adventure that the post-World War II generation did not support and that few seemed capable of affecting. Rage also targeted an inert political system, manned by the...
The student, who requested anonymity, said four Black males aged 16 or 17 approached him from the pathway behind Thayer Hall as he was passing Widener Library. He said that one of the members of the group asked him for five dollars.