Word: mother
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...sardonically described his initial attempts at writing a novel himself. Allende has worked as both a novelist and a journalist. Her books have been translated into 27 languages and have become best-sellers in four continents. In addition, she said that she writes letters to her mother every day. Among her most noted works is her 1982 novel “The House of the Spirits,” an example of magical realism, a style incorporating magical elements often used by mid-20th century Latin America authors. She said that “Spirits” would be difficult...
...about themselves (see #8) and there’s no easier way to accomplish this than writing about Harvard...and themselves. What better way to accomplish this than through semi-legitimate student publications bound to be read by at least two people—the editor’s mother and father (often also the publication’s main financial backers...
...twin sister and I look a lot alike (although we have different hair colors, thanks to a few chemical processes). We are not sure if we are identical or not. My mother never got a straight answer from the doctor—the confusion has something to do with placentas...unappetizing, right? We might be identical or we might not be. (Mary-Kate and Ashley are fraternal, after...
Bernanke joins a list of Class Day speakers that includes such notables as Mother Teresa, playwright Arthur Miller, former Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis, and Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King...
Each of us lives a life of contradictory truths. We are not one thing or another. Barack Obama's mother was at least a dozen things. S. Ann Soetoro was a teen mother who later got a Ph.D. in anthropology; a white woman from the Midwest who was more comfortable in Indonesia; a natural-born mother obsessed with her work; a romantic pragmatist, if such a thing is possible...