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...thinking: good luck, fat chance. Then I was talking to other Aussies about it, and none of them said that Cathy was crazy. I asked the writer Tom Keneally and he said, "I'm very skeptical about the idea that sports changes things any more than poetry or fiction can do, but this is quite like when Jackie Robinson played major league baseball in America, and if any sports event can change things, this one has a chance. It represents the strongest putting of the question to Australia by an Aboriginal in years. It makes...
...said he lived in Watertown with his friends over the summer. He tried to get his short stories and fiction published, but now he is interested in a consulting job where he says he hopes to use his English tutoring skills...
...lifework. For nearly three decades, in her current book and two previous ones, she has compiled and reflected on the stories of 131 children of divorce. Based on lengthy, in-depth interviews, the stories are seldom happy. Some are tragic. Almost all of them are as moving as good fiction. There's the story of Paula, who as a girl told Wallerstein, "I'm going to find a new mommy," and as a young woman--too young, it turned out--impulsively married a man she hardly knew. There's Billy, born with a heart defect, whose parents parted coolly...
...Vidal's historical series, particularly as it applies to the biggest winners, U.S. Presidents. Burr casts both Jefferson and George Washington in a harsh light. Lincoln portrays its protagonist as almost diabolically unknowable in his use of power; Empire makes merry with the boisterously ambitious Theodore Roosevelt. Vidal's fiction strives mightily to transform the faces on the Mount Rushmore monument into rubble and scree...
With a moderate workload, the course emphasizes personal stories--both fiction and non-fiction--from throughout the period of interest to flesh out and illuminate the history...