Word: carmell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Abraham Isaac Carmel...
...Palestinians, Poet Mahmoud Darweesh once wrote, are a people who have "no homeland, no flag and no address." But they do have a strong sense of nationhood. Even children who have never been there talk vividly about life in the Old City of Jerusalem or the beauty of Mount Carmel and the orange groves of Jaffa. In part, the Palestinians' collective memory of homeland and the dream of return are kept alive by a large body of nostalgic Arabic poetry, written by angry young lyricists who know both the harshness of Israeli prisons and the despair of life...
...past, Connell has explored -and refined-two different kinds of narratives. Mrs. Bridge (1959) and Mr. Bridge (1969) spun out a series of vignettes in the Midwestern lives of their protagonists; the accretions were devastating catalogues of anomie. In Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel (1963) and Points for a Compass Rose (1973), Connell shored fragments of history and reflection against our ruin, casting them in prose lines that rang with poetry...
These familar symptoms of "housewife syndrome" have been described by countless bored and depressed women. The speaker, however, is burly, bearded Sheldon Schacter of Carmel Valley, Calif., who gave up a $13,000-a-year job as a psychiatric social worker to become a househusband. Schacter, 29, cares for his son Jason and weilds a mean spatula and dry mop while his wife Sandy goes off to teach. Though feminists have long argued that such role reversals are often desirable, how many men have actually agreed to swap the daily commuter train for domesticity? Report TIME correspondents nationwide: a very...
...Carmel Valley, Calif...