Word: cleansing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crucial to his theory of adult development, as Levinson emphasized in his speech at Harvard last week, is the concept of the Dream, and the related concept of the Mentor. In forming a concept of himself, a young man necessarily imagines an ideal life for himself, whether he focuses on...
In summer, Carew putters in the yard. Come autumn, he cleans the rain gutters and in winter, the man from Panama shovels snow. Carew is rooted now, and the mercurial moods that marked his early career seldom surface. "When I ask Charryse what Daddy does, she says, 'Daddy strikes...
The soldier's misadventures take place in rural Russia during the spring of 1941. Hitler is poised to doublecross his former ally Stalin and invade the Soviet motherland. Chonkin stomps about his business, fetching the firewood for the battalion kitchen. But when an antiquated military plane makes a forced...
Between her travels to the order's farflung outposts, Mother Teresa rises at 4:30 a.m., prays, sings the Mass with her sister nuns, joins them for a spare meal of an egg, bread, banana and tea, then goes out into the city to work. Age and authority have...
I don't believe myself to be unusually susceptible to political or spiritual causes but the propaganda system set up at this center was infallible. Each day was organized with two things in mind: everyone has a good, fun time, and no one has a free minute to think. The...