Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moore says that while she was in ROTC, there was a push by some Harvard midshipmen to bring the program back to campus. She remembers talking about the discrimination issue with one of the students behind the campaign: "He said that the military shouldn't have to accept people who had something wrong with them, whether they were gay or had a leg missing, or whatever--his words...
...grow up in a big family in a little house with no indoor plumbing; to pick cotton; to live in "jivey" 1940s Harlem. Miller edited the reminiscences, and Baxter's unique voice so impressed editors at a major publishing house, Alfred A. Knopf, that next month it will bring out her exuberant memoirs, The Seventh Child: A Lucky Life. "I'm the seventh child, so I know I'm lucky," says Baxter. And what better proof than Knopf's literary stamp of approval? That in itself is an extraordinary tale--and a telling...
...have sprung up from coast to coast to help them with the writing craft. Anyone can start. Looking at old pictures or magazines, remembering the way things tasted, sounded and smelled, and recalling a specific incident, such as the first day of school or the first family car, can bring a flood of memories. Some people write in solitude, while many prefer working with a group. Others want a gentle guide. Along their journey through the past, people discover that what may have seemed an unimportant event has value. They may write to exorcise terrible experiences, complete the grieving process...
...writes memoirs and teaches memoir writing at Connecticut's University of Bridgeport. "There isn't just one version of the truth," she maintains. "We remember certain things in different ways, and our understanding changes over time." Everyone sees childhood through grownup eyes. The memoirist's task is to bring back the reality of the child's view filtered through adult perceptions and make that truth into a compelling story...
...does not reflect that of UNITE," says Allan Ryan, a Harvard University lawyer who has negotiated with antisweatshop protesters. Sheldon Steinbach, general counsel for the American Council on Education, asks, "How much of this student interest is really being influenced by unions whose main goal is to try to bring these jobs back to the United States...