Word: belovedness
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When Fatou Diome handed a copy of her first novel to her beloved grandmother in Senegal, the response was tepid. For the illiterate older woman, stories are something you tell, not write. "She's happy for me," Diome explains, "but she doesn't really understand." The French, however, know a...
Still, Poe's candidacy spooked the business community. The last presidential election was won by another film star, Joseph Estrada, who was run out of office 21/2 years later by a People Power demonstration. Like Estrada, Poe is weak on policy and platform-he has none yet-but is beloved...
Both Lincoln and Kennedy guided the country through peril. Both men gave their lives for their country. Both remain beloved. Lincoln said at Gettysburg that the world would “little note, nor long remember what we say here.” He could not have been more wrong...
It tormented Pappaw that I never ate green beans. Every meal—which is about how often my beloved grandmother, his beloved wife, Marie, made them—he would plead with me to try them again. They would put hair on my chest, he told me, a harrowing...
The best chants rely on cleverness, not cursing. Cornell’s “Grade in-fla-tion!” jab at us Harvard folk is a classic, as was the “Hey Baby” remake in honor of their beloved Stephen Bâby...