Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alberto has balanced his financial needs with his desire for an education ever since he came to Boston from El Salvador 14 years ago. He came during the throes of a civil war to visit his sister. "I wasn't sure I was going to stay, but I knew there was that chance. It was a new world. The people weren't amigos. You'd talk to them, and they wouldn't answer." He worked to a high school diploma at Arrow High School in Brookline while washing dishes in Jamaica Plain. He then worked at the Newbury College dining...
Like Katz, I grew up when teens were tolerated, not celebrated. Now, at 46, I am an antiquated adult with a 16-year-old who thinks that I was stupid to be alive during the civil rights movement. And he has the media, insistently telling him how smart the sacred young are, to back him up. GLENDA M. JOHNSON Gautier, Miss...
DIED. QUENTIN CRISP, 90, witty, flamboyantly effeminate author of The Naked Civil Servant; in Manchester, England. In his autobiography, famous for its lack of self-pity, the self-described "mother superior of homosexuality" chronicled youthful torment at the hands of homophobes (see Eulogy...
...fighting men of the Civil War, whether Blue or Gray, are recalled with sympathy, poignancy. They left their homes to fight in someone else's backyard for freedom or tradition. The truth, though, may be closer to the blind, bloody chaos depicted in Ang Lee's severe, handsomely rendered Ride with the Devil. In Border states like Missouri, a young man was at war not only with his brother but with his own best instincts as well...
QUENTIN CRISP once paid me the grand, pontifical compliment that I was "his representative here on earth." This referred to my having played him in the film of his autobiography, The Naked Civil Servant. At the time, Quentin was untraveled and 60 years old. He referred to the latter part of his expected life as "the twilight of my life." I suggested that "sunset" would be a more accurate description. He lived to be 90, and the soft light of his sunset enriched the lives of many people...