Word: moment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then there's the novel's climatic moment, set inside an eerily familiar Harvard Yard. Offred and her fellow handmaids witness a public execution in what appears to be Tercentenary Theatre. It is the only time Offred enters the Yard, and she is ironically summoned there by the same bell that reminds today's students of the end of each class...
...think often of the Puritans in Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Bay Colony as the sort of founding moment of Euro-American culture," says Rebecca B. Faery, lecturer on history and literature, who teaches the book in her Expository Writing class. "This is the cradle of the theocracy, of the Puritan incorporation of church and state...
...live in a state of total choice, perpetual indecision and delayed certainty. I can take a job, quit and move on. I can work for a while, go to grad school, get a job, quit and move on. I can live for the moment. I can write, read, run, drive to California and back. Yes, I will need money. Eventually I will grow tired of being on the move, mentally if not physically. I will find someone and settle down. I will have a career. I will advance in the ranks...
...will probably enter graduate school in years to come. But we will never again be here--we will never again be simply students facing a world of worlds yet to be entered. We may be frustrated with having to choose one world, leaving others unexplored for the moment. We may be scared about going somewhere, knowing that we will never come back the same. But this fear, this frustration, this choice--having these is the greatest privilege...
...just didn't want to miss a moment," saidTamar P. Halpern, mother of Gregory R. Halpern...