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Recalling his childhood experiences, a former Jewish Egyptian refugee recounted the history of Jewish displacement in the Middle East and urged his audience to keep an open mind in a speech last night...
...much of his own writing, Heaney returns to County Derry and his childhood on an Irish farm, to those “long forgotten and suddenly remembered places.” For instance, the foci of his poem “Lightenings,” which became the night’s case study in composition, are the recalled image of a beggar on a threshold, Heaney’s feeling that the world had become “unroofed” after his parents’ deaths and his memories of playing marbles as a child. Mix thoughtfully...
...their passion for cheese borders on overzealousness. Robert J. Aguilera stumbled into the business by chance when his former boss asked him to take over the cheese department at the now defunct Seasonal Table. After a five-month unpaid internship with guru Jesse Shwartzburg, Aguliera’s childhood hatred of dairy changed to obsession. “Now,” he says, “I’m willing to eat anything I can get my hands...
Making the jump across the Atlantic from Harare, Zimbabwe, to Cambridge, Maasdorp has impressed with her unique playing style, groomed since her childhood...
...Ninety-five percent of the Travelers got what they got from busting their butts," says Jim (Penn) Sherlock, 50. Penn is Mikey Boy's brother (the Travelers go by nicknames, like One-Eyed Pete and Curly Joe, since they share the same dozen surnames). Penn began his childhood in a tent but graduated to a mobile home and then a brick house--a common pattern among the more successful Travelers. In Murphy Village, the rows of trailer homes are suddenly interrupted by ornate pink and white mansions...