Word: augustness
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...which together form the main opposition to Erdogan's government - mobilized, bringing tens of thousands of sympathizers onto the streets of several cities, including Ankara. These protests grabbed attention in Turkey, but it was the case brought by a state prosecutor against the world-renowned novelist Orhan Pamuk in August that generated outrage beyond the country's borders. The charge against Pamuk - that he insulted Turkey's good name by discussing the mass killings of Armenians and Turkey's Kurdish conflict in an interview with a Swiss newspaper - carries a possible three-year sentence. (In practice, Pamuk is unlikely...
...that gay adults are still figuring out how to deal with gay kids. The gay subculture, after all, had been an almost exclusively adult preserve until the relatively recent phenomena of gay adoption and out teens. Point scholar and Emory College junior Bryan Olsen, who turned 21 in August and has been out since he was 15, told me during the retreat, "It probably sounds anti-gay, but I think there are very few age-appropriate gay activities for a 14-, 15-year-old. There's no roller skating, bowling or any of that kind of thing ... It's Internet...
...with this in mind that I surveyed the Roman Catholic Church I attended in Brooklyn during a few weeks in July and August. The church itself is a rather typical example of nineteenth century urban Catholic Church architecture—to my city-bred eyes it was beautiful, functional, and familiar. The church’s name, St. Mary Star of the Sea, is so bland as to give it the feeling of an “every church.” While located in Brooklyn it could just as easily be in Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, or Chicago. The wood...
What, for you, was the song of the summer? Not what topped the charts, but what fit your life as you lived it from June to August...
...Saturday in August, I was going to show two friends from Kansas City everything in New Orleans, everything, I threatened. We pulled on floaty skirts and parked my little car just off Julia Street in a part of the city where art galleries had just begun to take over panhandler territory. The street was closed and the galleries were open ’til past nightfall. We walked through shining white halls and laughed at serious paintings, batting the air with cheap church fans...