Word: firsthand
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...eloquent memoir about his father's struggle with Alzheimer's--Hard to Forget (Random House, $25)--writer Charles Pierce describes his dismay at the often savage sparring among scientists that he witnessed firsthand. It made him "want to throw things," he writes, "to scream at all these brilliant people that I didn't care a damn about which one of them got to be first as long as someone was." And yet, as Tanzi observes in his soon to be published account of the Alzheimer's wars--Decoding Darkness (Perseus, $26)--there is another way to look at the extreme...
...echoed across the country as he researched his most recent book, the nonfictional Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the 21st Century (1999), for which he interviewed more than 200 people. In places like Alaska and Utah, he found those who never knew the South firsthand yet had a yearning for it. "What's true of African-American identity is true for Southern identity," says Kenan. "A lot of it is fragile and in danger, and a lot of it is so much a part of us that we don't even...
...novel is, ostensibly, the coming-of-age story of its narrator, Mugezi, who is born in a tiny Ugandan village in the early 1960s and who grows up to witness firsthand his country's plunge into chaos under the dictatorship of Idi Amin during the '70s. But Mugezi is not one of those fictional characters who report only what he can plausibly know or have experienced. He gives all the intimate particulars that occur during the wedding night of his father Serenity and his mother Padlock; notes the later occasion of his own conception and, near the end, provides...
...beloved news media attacks all that is good and wholesome. I wasn't one bit surprised at your hostile questioning of Dr. Laura. After serving for 18 months in Vietnam and seeing how the news media trashed us service personnel, then 15 years as a big-city cop, witnessing firsthand the news media onslaught of anti-cop writings, then now as a minister seeing how the news media loves to attack biblical Christianity, is it any wonder that I have so much resentment towards the news media...
...nine, Carrington witnessed firsthand the civil strife in her native Nigeria during the military regime of General Sani Abacha...