Word: personal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This past week, a friend asked me, in one of those proverbial shuttle-ride-to-the-Quad conversations, if I knew that I was doing next year. Like many of my fellow seniors, I immediately wanted to change the subject, slap the person who asked or complain that I was still waiting to hear on different options. I started my usual whiny "Oh, I don't know" response and then stopped myself, saying with some surprise, "I'm not worried. All will work out. God will provide me with something useful to do that will make me happy...
...person should have limited educational resources because of their parents' ability to pay," he said after his emotional account...
...What was it like being the first black person to attend Tulane on an athletic scholarship...
...pages about 35years in the life of a geisha that were declared"dry." Golden then threw out another 750 pages, anact which he called "exhilarating," and then aftera week-long anxiety attack, decided that this wasa story about "a world" and one that needed to betold in the first person. After six weeks ofwriting, Golden developed a voice that mixes thecleverness of a gifted woman with the wide-eyes ofchildhood and emerged with the character of NittaSayuri. He then set her in the detachedenvironment of an apartment in the Waldorf AstoriaHotel in New York 40 years after she had leftJapan...
...perhaps the greatest disappointmentwas the inability to clearly discern the wordsbeing sung, which, even if a person doesn'tunderstand a word of Italian is vital to the fullenjoyment of the opera and perhaps even moreimportant in that scenario. Although an equalquality of clarity in comparison to CD studioversions cannot be justly expected, it was shownthat certain voices were more fully comprehendiblethan others. Unfortunately, the lead roles ofButterfly (Paula Delligatti) and Pinkerton (LuisLima) were more adept at singing passages drivenby emotive tendencies than they were at filling inall those passages of recitative (sung speech ordialogue). Recitative was a significant portion ofthe...