Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Trapped for six days in the remains of his home in Cinarcik on the Marmara coast, with hardly an inch of space above his face, Ismail was withdrawn and hallucinatory in the early days of his recovery. His mother is in a different hospital with a crushed femur. Ismail seems to sense the unspoken news that his father is dead, as are three sisters. Yet despite his troubles, says Nail Yologlu, one of Ismail's doctors, the boy is healing. "In a ferocious way," says the physician, "he is coming...
There is a certain logic to it: at the end of a decade of American triumphalism abroad and prosperity at home, we could be seeking to upsize our personalities, our sense of ourselves. Perhaps we as a people are acting out our success as a nation, in a manner unfelt since the postwar...
...Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter 'Cuz You'll Know That You're Right. That's 90 words--in iambic quadrameter--if you're counting at home, but we could have said it in one: nonsense...
...years that Norman Rockwell practiced his clean-scrubbed style of American optimism, from World War I to Vietnam, barely a single image delved into anything deeper than a smitten heart or a sweet longing for home. Only late in life did Rockwell's work begin to turn from ingrained nostalgia to a grittier reality, most notably in The Problem We All Live With, a 1964 painting of a young black girl on her way to school escorted by federal Marshals. His commonfolk, humorous and brave and spiritual to the core, became icons to generations. Yet a lifetime's work--nearly...
...scary. Its appeal to the younger set is not so much in its "bold sense of withholding" and "seeming artlessness" but in its Grimm-Golding mix, which zeroes in on the adolescent psyche's worst fears: fear of getting lost in the woods (a la Hansel and Gretel)--leaving home and being without guidance--and fear of the anarchy and tragedy that can ensue without adult supervision (a la Lord of the Flies). Coupled with the reality of the recent high school shootings, this is truly a "grimm" tale that hit gold. LAURA CAHNERS-FORD Charlotte...