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...party," said Julia M. Thoron'62. "People were there who were not only recentgraduates, but older women, working women,homemakers, people with close connections toRadcliffe, people with more distant ties. Theywere committed to listening and to speaking...
...will is a will, and so off the masterworks went, victims of a distant philosophical cousin to kissing up to the 18-to-34 demographic. This led to a round of thumb sucking in the media's tonier precincts about MOMA's mission in a postmodern world. Is there such a thing as contemporary modernism? How does one resolve the paradox of an institutionalized avant-garde? Couldn't somebody else's will have made them get rid of those silly Dalis? While for me personally the debate didn't cut quite as close to the bone as did the fuss...
...buzz of flies from a carcass." The memories, eloquently relived and regretted, are of grotesque cultural arrogance, unraveling in a very small place. Rumblings of the Congo's struggle for independence from Belgium--and U.S. plotting to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, the new nation's first Prime Minister--are distant thunder in Kingsolver's tale. Her story, a symbolic parallel to the national upheaval, takes place in an isolated village. Nathan Price, an evangelical Baptist preacher, fanaticism in bitter parody, lugs his wife, daughters and rigid preconceptions to Kilanga, a small jungle settlement, where faith plays out as farce...
Jane is obsessed and grieving, not over a recent divorce, but about the loss of Martha, her best friend and distant cousin. Martha is not dead, she just disappeared somewhere along the line. Martha was not Jane's friend but rather her idol, the object of her admiration. Jane's chaotic and slightly overbearing mother sends docile Jane into the Galapagos Islands in hopes her daughter will get over the emptiness, where her tour guide is, not surprisingly--Martha! This is not the ending. It is only the beginning of this book that struggles to evolve...
...closed. And although Murray has more money, Smith's followers, whom she refers to as "Linda's army," are generally more rabid. Plus, she has a history of coming from behind. There's also the thorn-in-the-side-of-the-party factor, which in distant Washington State could work in her favor. Her D.C. colleagues can't stand her. "She's impossible to deal with. She's nuts. Totally bonkers," says a senior House Republican. That's probably because she won't join the boys on favored-nation status for China, or she once called Newt Gingrich...