Word: grossman
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...find Graham deep in prayer, to whom and for what she isn't sure. But her poems, which mix autobiography and World War II documentary, struggle to come to terms with the raw human realities of war: "The experience of killing and getting killed." --By Lev Grossman...
...many called an inadequate pre-K plan, thousands of elderly "condo commandos," like the Greater Aventura Citizens Association (GACA) in South Florida, deluged Tallahassee with phone calls and e-mails to help win changes like lower teacher-student ratios. At this spring's legislative session, says GACA director Ginger Grossman, they have lobbied for more improvements, backed by the clout of Florida's senior-voter turnout, as high as 75%. "Politicians here still think they don't need to listen to children," says Grossman, 86. "But they do need to listen...
...political novel or a futuristic thriller, but at its dark heart it's an existential fable about people trying to wring some happiness out of life before the lights go out. Because death comes for all of us, and too soon: the ending that spoils everything. --By Lev Grossman...
...divine to the erotic that a lesser writer wouldn't see, and might not have the guts to follow. "Yes, there was transgression and betrayal and wrongness in it," Jessie says of her affair, "but also mystery and what felt like holiness, an actual holiness." --By Lev Grossman...
...glad I got to meet her before we started practicing because I got to know her outside of running,” Grossman said. “She’s pretty outdoorsy. She likes camping and that kind of stuff...