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Keneally, the Australian writer best known for Schindler's List, has said this novel began in his feelings of "grief and shame and outrage" at the treatment of the mainly Middle Eastern refugees seeking asylum in his home country, which is why Great Uncle is not his main focus. He's merely the malign spirit who hangs over his story, a nutty potentate who comes onstage just twice, always preceded by the efficient sadists of his elite guard, each of them enclosed in his own cloud of Tommy Hilfiger. Keneally's main concern is with the trials of Alan Sheriff...
...great thing happened, though—I had found something that I cared about, and maybe that’s why I was so scared at first. I became an executive, and in turn, I adopted the role of the newsroom bitch. I gave everyone grief, earning quite a few enemies while cementing a rep as the sports girl with an attitude. I could never quite put a finger on why I took on this aggravating role, only knowing that I did love the paper and felt the experience rewarding even if I didn’t always show...
...more than to us. I was so struck that this accomplished academic, Phi Beta Kappa and soon-to-be graduate could be unhappy with his accomplishments. That his highly desirable i-banking job and six figure salary in one hand came with a denial of his true passions and grief in the other shook me as one un-pretty truth of Harvard’s curricular and occupational system...
...last and most rebarbative movement of High Modernism turns out to be durable stuff. Deeply embedded in the DNA of much of the art that came after, it has likewise become the vocabulary of choice for almost all monuments since the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the semiofficial format of grief...
Seinfeld, the person, has been even more perplexed and flattered by the outpouring of national grief that came with the Christmas announcement that his show would be pulling its plug even though it is currently the nation's top-rated sitcom, even though it is as popular and lucrative as ever, even though the audience has not yet tired of the self-absorbed lives of Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer ... Aided by the dearth of real news over the holidays, the nation's papers and airwaves filled themselves with pleas from mourning fans for Seinfeld to reconsider and speculation from...