Word: clemently
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...Clement A. Leslie says his son has been amusician and performer who sought out rhythm inanything and everything from childhood...
...evening I heard this kid playing a Chopinpiece he had taught himself," Clement Leslie says."He sort of heard his mother play it from time totime...and he taught himself...
...Clement Leslie, himself a musician in his freetime, says that when his son told him he wanted tobe a musician, he did not support the decision...
...Americans, for its part, conjures up traditional images that Westerners derive from their abhorrence for-or fascination with--Native Americans. For most of the colonists, the Archbuilders peaceful, contemplative lifestyle and enchantment and play with the English language make them no more than stupid vagabonds. For the rest, like Clement, these same attributes deserve admiration and scrutiny and elicit awe. Although the latter is far more noble than the former, both are ultimately essentializing and patronizing pictures of an "other culture." It is only Pella that can sort through such simplifications and make fair value judgements about individual Archbuilders...
...novel, the power of words, as well as the notion of meaning, constantly comes into question. In the beginning, Pella confesses that she relies on her mother for words that serve as an "antidote" to her father's political speak. In a conversation between Efram and Pella's father Clement, this very speak implies the threat that Clement represents for Efram's power. Toward the end, Efram dies specifically because of the accusatory, lying words a child utters about him. This causation becomes clear a moment before his death. When Pella and Morris, who voices the accusation, stand before Efram...