Word: birthrights
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Parker's memoir, by contrast, is a carefully constructed and subtle rendering of a richly textured life. The "first black woman" wherever she went--prep school, Radcliffe, a tony law firm--Parker deftly mines the universal in experiences that bear both the good fortune and freight of a privileged birthright. Her warm evocation of her childhood in Durham, N.C., where she ate several dinners each day to satisfy the neighbors who beckoned, "Gwennie Mac, come on in," makes you hunger for a time when children were everyone's responsibility...
...imagination, the implacable drive of his spirit. He can do what only the greatest American songwriters can: make music that sounds, even when you first hear it, as if you've known it forever. Music that's more than something you grew up with. Music that's a birthright...
...Gephardt really believes. But in a 25-year career, he has miscalculated only once, when he ran for President in 1988 and his campaign fizzled after the New Hampshire primary. If he can succeed now in restoring his party's hold over the institution that it once considered its birthright, Gephardt may even get a second chance at that dream...
...lived in the D.C. suburbs nearly all my life without experiencing this uniquely Washingtonian Independence Day ritual. This was the summer, I decided, to claim my birthright as a citizen of the nation's capital...
...right. Dissatisfied from the start with her birthright (fancy German Jewish on her mother's side, plain East European on her father's) and her looks (no blond curls or rosebud mouth), Hellman felt she "didn't get anything of what I wanted." She began lying as soon as she could tell a story. One of the first concerned a black woman named Sophronia, who worked for the family briefly during Hellman's babyhood, but was transformed into the main nurturing figure of her life. Later, says Mellen, "an enlarged photograph of Sophronia holding a tiny, impish Lillian...