Word: nirvanas
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...Harvard thinks it's going to do this and every student is going to...say, 'This is Nirvana', the administration is going to be disappointed," says Todd Anderson, a 1997 graduate who now works at a firm in Washington...
...exactly the same time the second half of the revolution was taking place, the one that led to Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins and Nine Inch Nails, to alternative and grunge, to Nirvana on "Saturday Night Live" with the No. 1 record in the country. In the old Lower East Side of New York, rock was becoming dangerous again, was being taken back from dinosaur FM, graying A&R flacks and marketing departments. In England it set off a firestorm. And it was all happening in a little club on the Bowery, just north of Houston Street...
...publication of Exiting Nirvana, about Jessy's adolescence and adulthood, coincides with the reprinting of The Siege, Clara's 1967 account of Jessy's first eight years. Together these two volumes constitute what may be the best-documented case history of an autist. Without doubt it is the most readable...
...truly rendered as Jessy's buildings, Clara has documented her daughter's journey from the isolation and limitations of her early years to the vastly increased social integration and competence she enjoys today. Not only does Jessy paint those exquisite paintings--some of which are reproduced in Exiting Nirvana--but she also works as a clerk in the Williams College mailroom, maintains her own bank account, reads the newspaper (of special interest: stories about disasters and deficits), and cleans the house she still shares with her elderly parents...