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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...history when he argues that he and his family also are products of the American spirit of individualism and determination. He, too, went West and found a new life, only a century after the first squatters did. The connection may be there, but it requires a creative imagination to find...
...somebody can find a way to get the Montreal Canadiens to leave the NHL, the Bruins may someday have a chance of claiming a title. Even when the Bruins managed to get by Montreal in the playoffs two years ago, they fell to the Edmonton Oilers in the finals...
When Amy Wilentz first visited Haiti in 1986, she expected to find a land terrorized by President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier and his dreaded Tontons Macoutes. As it happened, she landed at Port-au-Prince Airport three days before Duvalier was hustled off to exile in France. Instead of a country bowed under tyranny, Wilentz found one struggling with the uncertainties of revolution...
What sustains Wilentz's own cautious hope for Haiti is the energy of its people, who have somehow learned the art of surviving. Haiti, she writes, "made me think of the laughter of slaves" -- but slaves, she all but adds, who will someday find their way to freedom...
...first thought about stopping in 1974, when his father died, and then his manager, Sol Hurok. "I adored both of them," he says. "It was really quite a blow." And the virtuoso circuit was exhausting. "The life of a musician is the most solitary life. Sometimes I did find it very difficult." Cliburn never made any sharp break, just gradually stopped accepting new engagements, spent more time visiting friends (he lives with his mother, Rildia Bee, now 92), composing piano pieces, buying English antiques, presiding over the quadrennial piano competition that bears his name, working out, enjoying himself...