Word: personal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clear how got interested. I guess I started listening to classical music on the radio when I was little-- just by chance. I remember coming across vocal music later and finding that more pleasing [than purely instrumental music]. I liked the individual achievement, the idea of one person singing there with an entire orchestra...
...share in a knowledge and appreciation of the particularities of Jewish culture. The festival recast ethnic community not as a simple enclave of people whose ancestors came from the same place but an active and diverse group learning about and learning to value a particular culture. As such, one person could be a member of several "ethnic groups." It was a welcome rarity in an era of so much self-segregation justified as multiculturalism...
...next day. So thenext day I went in the backstage door and walkedthrough the back hallway into the Met. There'snothing I could have done that would have moreimpressed me more at that time in my life. Atlunchtime we all went to the cafeteria and sat atthis 10-person round table. There were all thesefamous singers at the table and talking over me--Icouldn't eat my sandwich because I was sooverwhelmed by the supreme talent of these greatmusicians. This was my first taste of what wasgoing on backstage. When I came back for Act IIthe next day, they...
...dead man of the title, responds to the abuse by becoming his father's replica, repeating his father's acts first with Jean, then with his own family. Jean, the youngest and most vulnerable member of the family, becomes the toughest of the three siblings, "the only person in the world who scares me more than...Billy," according to Ray. Ray and his mother, however, react by becoming "rotten coward[s]," ignoring whatever they can and later taking refuge in long-term romantic relationships in an attempt to imitate normality...
...mail message sent to all Quincy House residents, the house committee leaders asked that the person or people responsible for the prints' removal turn them in to a house committee member immediately. The author promised no questions would be asked...