Word: elder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...labels me a minority activist "worked up over trifles." I have had the benefit of a private education at an international school, quite possibly an ideal environment in which to grow, with a world community as my peer group. I have also been harrassed by police, eyed suspiciously by elder members of society, and have been engaged in fistfights with less openminded youths over the multicultural company that I kept...
There is a great distance between Portnoy's Complaint, with its stage-Jewish parents, and Patrimony, the perfect eulogy for a stiff-necked elder of the tribe. Yet in celebrating his father, and by implication the source of his own character, Roth has not strayed from the long path he has cut for himself: to dramatize the adventure of assimilation in all its anxiety, humor and fertile illusions. As a writer and a son, he has now dotted the i's and crossed...
...into the middle of their religious ceremonies and disturb areas rich in medicinal plants and yellow ocher earth paint needed for those rituals. "How would you like it if I took my picnic basket, my family and dog into your church while you were praying?" asks Bill TallBull, tribal elder of the Northern Cheyenne...
...accused of killing him -- Darly Alves da Silva, 56, a wealthy Xapuri rancher, and his son Darci, 24 -- were the targets of one of Mendes' last empates, in March 1988. After the confrontation, Mendes, who had allegedly been threatened many times by the elder Da Silva, feared for his life and alerted the police. But on Dec. 22, 1988, Mendes was struck down by a single shotgun blast as he stepped out the back door of his home. His police bodyguards were inside playing dominoes. Mendes...
...irate but confused Massachusetts resident, who, in attempting to reach Governor-elect William F. Weld '66, actually reached the Stoughton hall residence of William C. Weld '94, who is a distant relative of the elder Weld, but unlike his namesake, is not involved in Massachusetts politics...