Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Magician, when I die, I want my parents and friends to have a great time. Just like they do in New Orleans. There should be a parade, a marching band, dancing in the streets, laughing, and trumpets. Loud ones...
...retrieval of the books and their return to use are the focus of the center's mission of salvaging a vanishing culture. In 1980, when he was 24, Lansky founded the center because he feared what would happen as the last generation of native Yiddish speakers began to die -- not ultra-Orthodox Jews who still speak Yiddish but the heirs to the essentially secular Yiddish culture of Europe and North America, which the ultra-Orthodox reject. The libraries of these aged people, he worried, would be thrown out, and a world would be lost...
...Shortly after he began his collection runs, he started tape recording his conversations with the donors, many of whom had thought their culture was doomed. "They're giving up a library, and it's like a moment of transition," Lansky says. "They're giving up the library before they die. So they often cry and tell stories...
...anonymity of a rented room on the Massachusetts coast. There, as winter sets in, they meet Gordon, 30, who becomes Victor's friend and, on the sly, Hilary's lover. The situation is messy, but at least members of the menage can foresee one outcome for certain: Victor will die soon...
HAVE you heard the anti-war demonstrators lately? It's hard to avoid their "die-ins" outside the Yard, their meetings all over Cambridge and their placards in Harvard Square reading "Stop the U.S. war machine...