Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...county had paid $18 million in settlements to children who were abused while in its custody. In the case of Jesus, a nine-year-old who weighed only 28 lbs. and could hardly speak after his angel dust-addicted parents committed suicide, county workers failed to visit him in his foster home for four months. During that time, he was beaten, sodomized, burned on his genitals and nearly drowned by his foster parents. He became a spastic paraplegic. By 1990 the state was threatening to take over Los Angeles County's child-welfare-services system...
...does a brilliant job of suggesting--with the turn of a hand, the tilt of her head--the minor adjustments of someone attending to an inner genius; you don't doubt that if she could only transfer what's inside her to her pupils, they would sing like angels. And when Callas' voice is piped in--a true angel, soaring out of the loudspeakers--Caldwell, her conduit, suddenly embodies the paradox at the heart of every magnificent diva: someone who might be thought triply vulnerable--high-pitched, solitary, female--emerges as an invincible spirit...
...other four gods he presents contain a similar mixture of idealism and practicality. "The Spaceship Earth" depicts all humans as stewards of a fragile planet, implicitly teaching tolerance and social responsibility. "The Fallen Angel" encourages critical thinking by stressing that error is inevitable, that blind dogma is dangerous and that much of what students learn in school is incorrect in "the American Experiment," he claims that having a government based on democracy and continuous argument is cause for patriotism. Yet, he cautions, we must remember that though "no shame need endure forever no accomplishment merits excessive pride." Finally, "The Word...
Jorie Graham read "Guardian Angel of the Little Utopia" and "Guardian Angel of Self Knowledge," both of which concerned "frustrated painters [who were] only given human beings to create with...
...family and friends, and of course, the land of his birthright. The other brother is cruel and hurtful to the bottom of his soul; greed envelopes him. He would sacrifice his own family for money. These brothers are only cartoons--the good brother (Reuben) is a harmonica-playing angel, while the bad brother (Robby) is a polo-playing bandit, until, as in all fairy tales, he is redeemed...