Word: bonner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sakharov might remind the West too that freedom is fragile, that if democratic societies are not protective of their liberties, even they may lose it. On the night of his death, after returning from a tempestuous meeting of the Congress of People's Deputies, Sakharov told his wife Yelena Bonner, "Tomorrow there will be a battle!" That battle--at its core, the battle of individuals striving to shape their own destinies--must continue to be fought in the century to come...
...horrified to see the two killers on your cover. Shame on you for glorifying such people! MARGARETE BONNER Clovis, Calif...
Gail Godwin's 10th novel, Evensong (Ballantine; 405 pages; $25), is set in the very near future indeed, specifically the waning weeks of 1999. Millennial fever has reached even the idyllic and remote Smoky Mountain town of High Balsam, N.C. (winter pop. 1,000), where Margaret Bonner, 33, serves as rector of All Saints Episcopal Church. "Winter in the Great Smokies would shortly be upon us," Margaret says at the outset of her tale, "the winter that would see us into the next century and the new millennium. Other things were on their way to us as well, things...
Instead, they wound up in an unlit section of Ophelia Bonner Park. The park was once a well-kept, bustling playground before Jefferson Elementary School was closed a few years back. The city stopped maintaining the park, and it became a jungle of trees and debris. "You could lay down in the weeds and nobody would ever have seen you, the grass was so high," says Kenneth Hairston, 38, who lives next to the park. "It's a shame somebody had to die there before the city thought about cleaning...
...grass at Ophelia Bonner Park is cut low now. The city crews came out and manicured it earlier this month, just in time for a vigil held there for Michael Carter. And Mayor Stanley is forging ahead on an aggressive community-policing initiative that includes more neighborhood mini-stations, mounted officers and bike patrols. He expects that the changes could significantly reduce citywide murders. But it's doubtful that by the time Stanley seeks re-election in two years, anyone will have forgotten what happened to the kids who crossed his tracks...