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Trevor is best known as a writer of short stories, and his gifts for compression and a resonant allusiveness do not abandon him over the longer haul of a novel. He makes every one of his words matter; Felicia's Journey is packed with extraordinary passages. Here is a look at the homeless, to whose ranks Felicia has been driven: ``Hidden away, the people of the streets drift into sleep induced by alcohol or agitated by despair, into dreams that carry them back to the lives that once were theirs.'' To take Felicia's journey is to encounter an exemplary...
Trevor is best known as a writer of short stories, and his gifts for compression and a resonant allusiveness do not abandon him over the longer haul of a novel. He makes every one of his words matter; Felicia's Journey is packed with extraordinary passages. Here is a look at the homeless, to whose ranks Felicia has been driven: "Hidden away, the people of the streets drift into sleep induced by alcohol or agitated by despair, into dreams that carry them back to the lives that once were theirs." To take Felicia's journey is to encounter an exemplary...
Winona, who took the name Ryder when she started acting, would commute with her folks by car (they couldn't afford the airfare) to Los Angeles -- a nine- hour drive. The long haul was a blessing in disguise: because traveling was such an ordeal, Ryder turned down roles in many a cheesy horror film. Her debut, Lucas, made when she was 13, set the tone for her later choices. It was a sensible, sensitive tale of ordinary kids growing up. Soon she got her first two defining parts: in Beetlejuice and in Heathers, Daniel Waters' blistering portrait of suicidal teens...
...victimization of Black folks in American life (trauma recently reinforced by the racist discourse found in The Bell Curve, by Charles A. Murray '65 and the late Harvard professor Richard J. Herrnstein), you should be formulating week-by-week and month-by-month numerous projects to assist that long-haul task of outfitting the Black poor and underclass youth to read adequately, to manage math, to replace vulgarity with beauty, to overcome hyper-macho, anarchic and anti-humanistic values and personal identities...
This long-haul task--defined in activist uplift terms, not cathartic terms of Afro-Romanticism--is, of course, less symbolically stirring and solidaristically glamorous than your Kwanzaa Rituals celebration proposal, that's for certain. But from my vantage point as a pragmatic activist and leftist member of the Black intelligentsia, I can say without fear of contradiction that Rev. Rivers's kind of humanistic and activist outreach program will produce greater modern transformation and benefits for our massive Black poor population (32 percent of Black households, compared to 29 percent of Latino households) and 15 percent of white households...