Word: isabel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Isabel Dyson is a young white girl who once felt "very virtuous about our pioneering mission." Thami Mbikwana is a 17-Year-old Black man who tells her in exasperation, "going to school doesn't mean the same to us as it does to you." Anela Myalatya is a Black teacher in a ghetto school who has "seen too much of it, wasted chances, wasted people." My Children My Africa! is about a country that could ours, about a country inhabited by lunacy but home to people who unrelentingly search for "opportunity to fight the lunacy...
...Africa! in Camdeboo, South Africa in the autumn of 1985, and the different ways his three characters choose to fight the lunacy are freighted with historical poignancy. "Mr. M" (Allen Oliver) wants sustained change through education and discipline, but his protege Thami (Donald Swaby) wants direct action, revolutionary action. Isabel (Eliza Gagnon) is afraid that, in the upheaval she knows is necessary for change, Thami will dismiss their friendship as "an old-fashioned idea...
...undergoes, Swaby's Thami is magnetic in his development from polite and amiable debate to clenched-fisted crescendoes, as he turns on "Mr. M": "Yours were the lessons in whispering, there are men who are teaching us to shout." Gagnon is perhaps a little old for the role of Isabel Dyson, but her believability as a buoyant sharp-tongued hockey-playing, poetry-quoting high school girl renders that criticism trivial...
...Greater Dayton senior citizen center, even though most of the regulars are too poor to be affected by any increase in taxes paid on benefits. "Every President tries to stick his hand into our pockets. But I worked my hands to the bone to earn my Social Security," said Isabel Mejia, 79, pausing from her volunteer work, in which she rolls plastic eating utensils into paper napkins. And don't call her stingy: last Christmas she and her fellow elderly collected 25 baskets of goods for the Salvation Army. That said, she wants Clinton to slash the deficit and wishes...
...recoil from it in practice out of fear of angering voters. Yet the plan could take hold if the U.S. could somehow reach a consensus to divvy up the burden. "The only way you'll ever get political agreement is to promise that everyone will share the pain," says Isabel Sawhill, a budget analyst at the Urban Institute, which studies social and economic problems. "My reaction is that this plan spreads the pain quite broadly...