Word: bone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Slumped in a chair, twelve-year-old her face Pamela Hamil with ton of La Follette, Tenn., asked a state judge to grant a seemingly suicidal wish: not to have medical treatment for her rare form of bone cancer. Doctors had testified that without chemotherapy and radiation treatment she would die within months. But Pamela's father Larry is a minister in the Church of God of the Union Assembly, a fundamentalist sect that does not permit its members to seek medical treatment and counsels them to rely instead on the power of prayer. Despite her dramatic plea seven...
thought she saw her soul shining through the features of her face. She forgot the nose was merely the nozzle of a bone that took oxygen to the lungs, she saw it as the true expression of her nature...
...schools generally reflect secularist views. Consider the antitheistic emphasis of Carl Sagan's Cosmos, which students are often required to watch. Or the presentation of atheistic evolution propounded by Darwin as the only explanation for the origin of man. Or sex education. Why not throw us Christians a bone and give us a minute...
Although Odets was 28 when he wrote Awake and Sing!, he could grant only his older characters credibility. As Bessie, Nancy Marchand has a despairing authority, and as her brother Morty, Michael Lombard combines unctuous self-regard and bone-deep insecurity. As the old, unrepentant radical Jacob, Paul Sparer provides a sense of guttering energy that is supposed to illuminate the hopes of the young. It does nothing of the kind. Brother and sister, husband and lover all perform in a declamatory style more appropriate to pageants than to plays. Moreover, Theodore Mann's direction takes the Bergers...
Asked if the House's dining policy has been a bone of contention, DuFour shrugs, "not to my knowledge." Ann Sicari, manager of the Quad dining halls, even eggs him on; "I wish they'd throw them out more," she says, adding "then they might come back up here." The Quad's policy, says Sicari, is generally open, save during reading periods, when Hilles attendance overwhelms...