Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grew is worth some effort, even from initiates. Beneath its self-congratulatory veneer, the story generates considerable poignancy and appeal. There is the little girl who takes a train trip from Seattle with her beloved parents to visit relatives in Minneapolis. Then her mother and father die, victims of the flu epidemic of 1918, leaving the heroine and three younger brothers orphaned into the harsh care of an aunt and uncle: "If I was beaten with a razor-strop for having won a prize in a city-wide essay contest, I had no need to ask myself...
...traffic goes through a hilltop base deep inside the jungle. Armed guards are posted outside the facility, which is little more than a day's march from the fighting in central Jinotega. At the base, located some 25 miles inside Nicaragua, boxes of ammunition and mortar rounds are secured beneath camouflaged tarpaulins, and a radio operator maintains static-filled contact with forces far to the south...
Given the nature of Harvard social life, the thrill of danger inherent in the new body will no doubt vigorously enhance the quality of life here. It is thrilling, to be sure, to stuff rags soaked in flammable material beneath your roommate's door; but how much more so, knowing that the disciplinary board that will try you for your crime will be composed of a completely random group of people--some of whom may be dangerously insane, others of whom may have a deepseated grudge against...
...STOPPARD is an irreverent playwright, but the Dunster House production of two Stoppard farces almost expires beneath an overly-reverent treatment of the author's script...
...cemeteries dedicated to Stalin's victims. Some of the camp names that dot the pages of prisoner memoirs are ordinary towns now: Shturmovoy, Elgen, Yagodnoye, Mylga, Magadan itself. "When you go to Magadan and stand upon the Kolyma highway," a Muscovite advised, "you must look down at the earth beneath your feet and think of all the bones buried there...