Word: miriam
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Another, although comparatively muted explosion gets the plot moving in Brown's fifth novel, Half a Heart (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 402 pages; $24). The year is 1986, and Miriam Vener, Jewish and in her mid-40s, lives in Houston with her ophthalmologist husband Barry and their three children. Amid the splendors of her gated community and rambling, expensive house, Miriam sports a troubled conscience, for she has another child, a half-black daughter whom she has not seen in nearly 18 years. Her husband knows about this chapter of her life, closed before he met her: the time during...
...Miriam Makeba's voice is as majestic and contoured as the Magaliesberg, a range of sloping grassy peaks near her home city of Johannesburg, South Africa. Makeba's nickname is "Mama Africa," and rightfully so. You can hear her homeland in her voice. As she lags behind a beat, drawing out emotion, one feels the weight of apartheid bearing down. Caught up in one of her forceful, husky glissandos, it's hard not to imagine soaring above the lush expanse of the African veld...
...Miriam S. Udler '03, Leverett House
...just weren't getting anywhere in dialogues," said Miriam R. Joffe-Block, the Penn senior who coordinated the protest. "We felt this was the only way to get the administration to see that we were really serious and to take action...