Word: parts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...praise from one part of the quirky, mixed-up world of publishing often means scorn in another. Wolfe's detractors--and he has more than his share--decry his attention to frivolous details, such as clothing, while others comment on Wolfe's habit of stereotyping certain sectors of society. Wolfe admits in an interview with New York magazine that he parallels his own writing on that of Blazac and Zola, and Bonfire is his attempt to do with New York what the two 19th-century authors did with Paris...
Hone and sharpen, play around with the possibilities--that was how Wolfe spent the greater part of the mid- and late sixties, trying almost every literary trick to discover how far one can go--and still be a journalist. Then the books came, books which reflected Wolfe's earlier essays and his knowledge about every and anything...
This year's volunteers will work all summer and will receive a $500 stipend and a $1000 scholarship, provided in part by City Year's corporate sponsors, which include the Bank of Boston, Equitable Insurance and the Riley Foundation...
City Year's working members see it as part of a tiny but potentially booming national youth service movement. The idea of a national youth service program has been bandied about for a long time and Brown and Khazei--roommates at the College and the Law School--both researched a national service bill while interning for members of Congress on Capital Hill. They and other proponents of national service now say that using a decentralized network of local groups like City Year might be the most practical way to realize their ideal...
Freshman year is the closest thing to atabula rasa any of us are likely ever to bea part of. History and memory don't have to matterif we don't want them to. Cast into this vortex,however, I flailed about. I was like an electronin the new physics. Here one second, there a splitsecond later, I was all over the place and nowhereat once. I left no traces. Late night bullsessions for me were usually about political--notpersonal--first principles as I resisted makingpersonal revelations or admitting to anyunhappiness or imperfection. The closestembodiment of ironic detachment this side...