Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Corwin, 22, was first struck by the disease at the age of 10 and had been undergoing chemotherapy after a relapse the summer before his senior year...
...life, as are the lives of many children afflicted with cancer, was a profile in courage. Stricken with the disease at age 10, Tom missed most of his sixth-grade year because of intensive chemotherapy but insisted on being promoted with his class. In spite of significant physical limitations, Tom strove to be normal and did more than succeed. He graduated third in his class with high honors from Noble and Greenough High School, where he was editor-in-chief of the campus literary magazine, captained the golf team and won the school's highest award for creative writing...
...that futon I started thinking what it would be like to die at age 20. I cried hard, but not for the money I was not going to make nor the jobs I would never have--not even for the Harvard degree I wasn't going to recieve. On that day I thought of the many wonderful friends I had had and the chance that I would never see them again. I thought of my family. It was love that I cried for that day. From that bed I wanted to reach out and hold hands with everyone...
Fagin, Scrooge, Uriah Heep, Mr. Micawber and Mrs. Jellaby -- so many of Charles Dickens' great grotesques lurk in memory with the clarity of caricatures. They seem made not just for the page but for the stage and screen. As the great popular novelist of his or any age, Dickens has always been filched by other media. And as a social reformer who, as George Orwell wrote, "succeeded in attacking everybody and antagonizing nobody," Dickens ^ invented outsize villains and situations applicable to almost any taste or decade. The endless Broadway and movie adaptations of Dickens stories testify to the vitality...
...Perhaps one mellows with age. It is good to have the idealism of youth. But there is a lot more pragmatism to life...