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More specifically, it was an Ali-Frazier, Balboa-Creed-type fight--chock full of blood, guts and violent momentum swings...
...John A. Frazier '95, a Black student who said he has "been out for three years," said his mother still does not talk about his homosexuality. She thinks there are already many obstacles in life, he said, and being gay just makes it harder...
...alley. A mean-looking crowd huddled around a guy that looked vaguely like Frazier from Cheers...
...context, this remark sounds critical of his parents, but that is not what Frazier means at all. It is rare in contemporary writing to come across the pure love he expresses for the people who raised him: his chemist father, who worked 37 dutiful years for the same Ohio oil company; his schoolteacher mother, who dreamed when young of becoming an actress and who still appeared in amateur theatricals when Frazier was a boy. He once saw her do Lady Macbeth: "I remember especially her lines about snatching the smiling infant from her breast and bashing its brains...
...Frazier's long immersion in his family's past convinces him that "every person should spend a certain amount of time thinking about what he or she believes. Because what you really believe in coincides with meaning in a larger sense, with meaning that connects to other people alive and dead and yet to be born." At the end Frazier remembers sitting in his mother's bedroom overnight as her death approached. Suddenly he switches to future tense, foreseeing not only what will happen to her but also to him and to his children and to all the generations...