Word: echoed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tight budget. One day when he was 10, he told his mother he was going to the library and instead took a bus to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to lobby city and state officials about building a zoo. He pressed his cause for the next two years, with arguments that echo eerily 40 years later. "A few minutes' conversation with Newton leaves an awed adult with a flying start toward an inferiority complex," reporter Jace Bennett wrote in the Harrisburg Evening News. "Don't you know an African lion costs only $250. And it's easily gotten!" argued the boy crusader...
...land those who love them should get up in arms lest they be eradicated from the planet. If we're not careful, we'll lose out on good citizens like David Gold. This discourse of extermination Tolins initiates, which we are supported to hear as a Holocaust echo, is unconstructive and leaves us mired at square one What Tolins does do well and should have done more of is examine why the Gold-Steins wealthy, educated liberals, the people we would expect least likely to about a fetus because of its sexual orientation... embrace the idea that a life made...
...collection contains "much, much more," to echo the last words of Nabokov's novel Ada. There are madmen, romantics, nymphets and those enduring symbols of the 20th century, melancholy exiles whose portable lives are light on possessions but heavy with memories. That Nabokov gave wings to his own past is reaffirmed by the publication of this long-overdue volume, an authentic literary event and, even at $35, the reading bargain of the year...
...paranoid, certain that every knock on the door heralds the arrival of the FBI; Arthur (Maury Chaykin) is a soft-spoken collector of wedding-cake figures, snow domes and rubber balls that he teaches Steven to listen to, convinced the voices of the children who once bounced them still echo faintly inside...
...reasons this study has more concern is because it's about women," said Nhi-Ha T. Trinh '95, a peer counselor for Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO). "It's different for women because they are more to having eating disorders...