Word: kidsã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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That year, an Eliot junior and Olympic figure skater named John Misha Petkevich ‘72 met several “Jimmy Fund kids?? while at the Children’s Hospital in Boston. He was so moved that he decided immediately, with his friend John Powers, to put his own exceptional talents to their benefit in any way he could. What had begun in concept as a figure-skating show for the kids themselves evolved almost immediately into a fundraising event for the Jimmy Fund, a one-time-only gathering of “Misha?...
There are typically three performances of the Evening With Champions: Friday and Saturday evening shows, and also a Saturday matinee after which Jimmy Fund kids are invited with their parents and siblings to a much-loved “Kids?? Party.” For Kris Mendez, this is the most memorable event the EWC holds since it is the most immediate. “I can still see their faces,” he said. “That’s where it struck me that this isn’t about ‘poor...
While the edge hasn’t gone from the Onion, in some places it may be too sharp for good taste. Headlines such as “Fun Toy Banned Because of Three Stupid Dead Kids?? and “Loved Ones Recall Local Man’s Cowardly Battle With Cancer,” provoke that horrible smirk-shudder reaction, and the book might be better had they been left...
...talk about how great universities are. I wonder if any member of our class has ever been invited there. I wonder how many students’ names he knows. I wonder what sort of friend he is even to his aged peers, not just “kids?? like us. Is he affectionate? Or is he interesting for conversation and hollow for humanity? Did he toss a football with his kids? He doesn’t give one the feeling that he could just relax and be a person, an ability we fancy few are fast losing...
...shake it’s the stigma associated with age. Since comics were originally geared towards children (even today many within the industry still colloquially refer to them as “funnybooks”), a great majority of people have come to associate comic books exclusively with kids??and the claim “Only kids read comics!” has become the standard (and inaccurate) battle cry for the legions of adults with “more serious” things on their minds...