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...pleasant to have someone concerned about you and your health. I was brought up to think about others, not about myself, and if the conversation should dwell on me, to change the subject quickly. But now, in the privacy of an examining room, I was accorded the great privilege of talking about me, my feelings and aches and what's happening here and here and down here, and the doctor was not so bored to hear about it. He found me interesting and looked into my eyes and my ears and my nose. He thumped my chest...
...President Clinton may cling to a separation of church and state that allows him to share his latest Monica mea culpa with an audience of forgiving preachers, only to free himself to dwell on his secular achievements when he addresses the party convention on Monday night. But that wouldn't be the first instance in which the President has found himself out of step with the Gore campaign...
...throughout the novel is the sense that life is teaching Jim that he will someday have to leave Aliceville, his mother, the uncles who tried to fill the place left by his dead father. Preserving the present moment is as impossible as making the ocean hold still. Grownups who dwell overlong on such a thought may be accused, with some justice, of rank sentimentality. But such folks can watch this knowledge, in Jim the Boy, dawn on a child and remember or imagine their own ages of innocence...
...would be a disservice to their authors to dwell only on the sad finality of these letters full of playful language and good cheer, even under the most harrowing circumstances. After all, most were responses written in the glow of morale boosted by receiving news from home that life was still normal there, that Dad was still priding himself on the tomatoes bursting ripe in the vegetable garden, that Little Brother had just smacked his first stand-up double or that Sis had been accepted at the local university. The mundane details of life in the U.S.--the score...
...annual trips he once made to India are out of the question, at least for now. From his home in Marin County, Calif., he says, "I can see out to mountains, and the bay, water, trees and birds." Words and sentences come slowly, and he seems to dwell comfortably in a universe of long silences. Still, asked if the '60s had been the best time of his life, he replies with conviction, "No. This is my best time...