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...side. When Watkins was 14, her parents divorced. While they weren't the first Tomball couple to split up, it was a move radical enough that their church had refused communion to another divorce. But Harrington was hardly fazed. "I am going up there and kneeling, and I dare them not to give me communion," she told Watkins at the time. The minister did not pass...
WATKINS: Certainly my mother is still setting the example for me to follow. My parents divorced when I was 14. Divorce wasn't that common back then, especially in the Lutheran Church. [My mother] said, "I am going up there and kneeling, and I dare them not to give me Communion...
...inconsequence. But not me. The contempt I once felt for Schmidt and his ilk, the men who shaped me and my emotional refusals, was at least temporarily dissolved by this sublime and sorrowful movie, replaced by something that feels a little bit like compassion and a little bit like--dare I say it?--love...
...shot dead. I think they are Nazis, racists, I feel nothing but hatred for them;” “I have utter contempt for them. They use this card of anti-Semitism. They fill newspapers with hate letters. They are useless people.” Those who dare to disagree with Paulin are “useless” and full of hatred? What is it that Mr. Paulin suggests we do with “useless people”? Should they too be shot and discarded like garbage on the trash-heap of history, as was done...
...Pasadena, Calif. Known for her sharply beautiful, economical prose--she could labor over a sentence for an hour--Doerr based much of her writing on time spent with her family in Mexico, where her husband ran a mining business. She returned to college at 65 on a dare from her son, studied creative writing and went on to publish the 1984 novel Stones for Ibarra, which won the American Book Award; another novel, Consider This, Senora; and an essay collection, The Tiger in the Grass...