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Some seniors who are not my blockmates have used their time to grow as individuals, just as Thoreau did by skipping pebbles at Walden Pond. A few go rockclimbing and one just learned how to play Mah Jong, but for many, all this free time hasn't exactly produced a transcendental effect: that is, seniors thinking, reflecting and growing as people...
...knew our mothers didn't have great lives. My mother had lots of energy and ability. She was a brilliant bridge and mah-jongg player, a good golfer and hostess, head of the women's division of the community chest, etc. But I didn't want to be like my mother. Women in my generation had to be self-made. We were the first women to move into careers and autonomy. The energy released by the move to women's equality was stronger than that released by the H-bomb...
...computer didn't understand me. I tried talking to it reasonably, but it was fruitless. When I said, "You say po-tay-to, I say po-tah-to; you say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to," it heard, "Using potato vice, the auto use a tomato." While the idea of potato vice intrigued me, I was getting discouraged by my machine's tin ear. I spent a week with Dragon Naturally-Speaking Mobile ($250), a 4-oz. tape recorder that holds 40 minutes of speech and fits in the palm of my hand. It's designed to take...
...leader Shaka Zulu. Moreover, Shaka's life was oddly parallel with that of Macbeth: a diviner prophesied in his youth that Shaka would become a "chief of chiefs," and his wife, Pampata, was his ablest and most ambitious war counselor. Thus was born uMabatha, the story of Mabatha (pronounced "Mah-bat-ta"): an amalgam of Shaka and Macbeth...
...manipulation of language is the sole means of gaining and keeping social status. The world of Versailles is shaped by what they refer to as "wit." Lest one believe that this wit is based on the crass premise of merely producing amusement, one French noble dismisses disdainfully the "hew-mah" of the English as being far inferior to French wit. The use of wit is sadistic, funny only if you enjoy seeing people being cut down with a single brittle and elegant phrase. For all its elaborateness, it is a savage and blood-thirsty game, and one whose consequences...