Word: agee
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...overly twee writing of Gopnik's memoir-inflected works (Paris to the Moon, Through the Children's Gate), and in its place is a succint, convincing, and moving account of how two men ripped mankind out of its past unreason and thrust it into a more enlightened age. Much has flowed from them...
Much has been made in recent weeks of the shared birthday of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, two juggernauts not only of their own age, but of all the years since. New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik explores their legacies in this book-length series of essays, focusing on their abilities as writers and thinkers of the highest caliber. As Gopnik writes, "Literary eloquence is essential to liberal civilization; our heroes should be men and women possessed by the urgency of utterance." With their adherence to logic and observation, and devotion to thoughtful expression, Lincoln and Darwin - in addition to everything...
...that sticks with me. The first memory I have was entering the House chamber through the East door. It was the biggest door I had ever gone through. It also was the biggest chamber I had ever seen. Remember, I was six years of age. I had never been in a place like this. I was a working-class kid from a Polish neighborhood in Detroit, and this was quite an event for me. I've only begun in later years to appreciate what it all meant...
...Left secondary school at the age of 22 to work in the Trojan Nickel Mine to help support his family, later becoming an active member and leader of the Associated Mineworkers Union...
...lyrics, Ndiaye, who immigrated to France from Senegal at age 16, evokes the violent rivalry between the youth of his housing project - or cité - and a neighboring one, the temptations of dealing drugs and easy money, and all that's obscured when these things come to define his neighborhood. "There is a lot of good in the cités, but you have to look for it," he says. "There are people who are in the shadows, who the town hall, the government, have forgotten and left behind...