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...discretion. On the other hand, the angry black of the new wave--dark glasses, sour black T shirts and scruffy black jeans--is more the anarchist's traditional black. It is neo-beatnik, the color correlate of the adolescent angst satirized by Chekhov. Why do you always wear black? Masha's suitor asks her in the opening scene of The Seagull. "I am in mourning for my life," the girl declares...
...years after their husbands’ deaths, Edja, Masha and (judging from the shock that I would even ask) most of their friends eat alone every night. In their separate apartments down the hall and up the elevator shaft from each other and the Florida sands, these people with similar life stories and similar unhappiness spend their lives missing the company of the days of yore...
...can’t help feeling mostly cut off from their families and histories. Happiness sometimes creeps into the loneliness of the everyday, but the latter is their most prevalent emotional state. “It was a different life,” my grandmother’s friend, Masha, confided over our shakily poured cups of tea. “You can’t understand. You’ll never be able...
Despite being clearly emotionally rooted in their pre-war European lives, neither Edja nor Masha demanded that their children speak to them in the languages of their youth. And though that decision made strategic sense to them as new immigrants to the U.S., they now suffer its consequences. And so do their descendents. With their hearing worsening and general health starting to break down, my grandmother and her friends would have a vastly easier time communicating with the next generations of their families if only we could speak in their native tongues...
Truth be told, I’ve been convinced for some time now of the shortcomings of the idea of partnerhood as the pinnacle of interpersonal bliss. But now the flames have been newly stoked. Both Edja and Masha had extraordinarily healthy and happy relationships with their husbands of many years. Both women’s partners were, by far, their closest peers, to whom they dedicated nearly all of their social interaction time. They cared vastly more about their relationships with them than with their other friends. They ate dinner together, relaxed together, spoke intimately about their lives with...