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...another interesting character I met this summer. The Romanian-born grandmother of my Israeli friend, Eti at one point was rumored to have earned a PhD in Art History. Now, Eti, who lives in a beautifully furnished apartment in Tel-Aviv, has one passion: The Bold and the Beautiful. As the newest American in town, I was fielded anxious questions about the current status of the scandalous affairs of characters with names like Simone and Stephan. Although she has lost two out of her five children in Israel's successive wars, Eti had no interest in discussing politics, past...
...instance of an idealist is offensive and risible to the ironic mind that can not stand to see ideals expressed or fulfilled: "our being human," writes Purdy, "has become a strong argument against cleaving to demanding values, or respecting them in others." One can sense in Hodge the resentfulness born of this attitude, as Hodge castigates Purdy more for who he is than for what he believes: "Apparently because we're all too ironic or falsely spiritual to believe in anything as simple and real as the value of living on a hillside farm in West Virginia, we lack...
...Harvard Snowboarding Club sauntering down Mt. Auburn Street with a bright yellow (gold? orange? it's an indescribable hybrid) t-shirt punctuated with red and blue lettering. She bought one off him on the spot (luckily, he had a few for sale; she would have given up her first-born for it, I'm sure). The buzz started building. Next day, I see six people wearing it in Lowell. Two days later, I see at least a dozen supposed "Snowboarding Club members" in the yard. It's the rage--get one while it's still in style (or in stock...
Dunn looks like your grandmother, with crisp white hair and a ruddy complexion, who stands just about five feet tall. She loves detective novels and just finished knitting a blanket for her first grandchild, who will be born next month...
Sturgeon Bay, Wis., where Mary Dunn was born in 1930, is wedged on a narrow peninsula jutting into Lake Michigan. Dunn attended classes in a two-room schoolhouse there until the start of the Second World War, when her father, a haberdasher, was drafted into the Army...