Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BOSTON--Upon returning from their Thanksgiving holiday, the 37 members of MIT's Phi Gamma Delta fraternity will begin to search for new homes...
Winter is the slow part of the grape season, he says--Kovacevich's workers only fertilize and irrigate until March, when the vines begin to grow again...
...life that can be made to look dashing--you know, the trench-coated stand-upper with the rubble of some dreadful, war-torn landscape stretching out behind the minor media star. It's also a life that can begin to seem feckless--you know, the endless trafficking in scenes of human misery that, no matter how widely they are broadcast, do nothing to halt the flow of tragedy...
...fictional and factual footage. You gain from their work--and from a wonderfully real cast that includes Woody Harrelson--a very powerful impression of a population trying to maintain the small comforts of quotidian routines, common civility, as the only available defense against the surrounding anarchy. And you begin to see the goodness of Henderson's deed not as a carefully considered moral act but as a rather desperate improvisation, an instinctive gesture he needs to make in order to assure his survival as a fully human being. He is surprised, puzzled by his own grace under pressure. The movie...
...think I'd begin with "The Spirit of St. George," which I wrote for L.B.J. to deliver in Salt Lake City. It challenged Americans to have the sort of spirit the Mormons demonstrated in the 19th century when, rather than settle into the relatively comfortable life they'd managed to build in Salt Lake City, they trekked back into the wilderness to found a temple at St. George, Utah...