Word: quiets
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...floating chronology and candor, Gurr's memoir springs from a sensibility close to that of the late Arthur Miller in his masterly Timebends. In it, he's telling two stories. There's the public history of shared experience, a critique of the times, inviting a connection. But the quiet story is more compelling; the struggle inside the mind house, with its interplay of faith and experience...
...tall, quiet man sitting across from me in the diner has several names. These days he goes by Valentino Achak Deng, but in the African refugee camps he grew up in he was called Gone Far, for the hundreds of miles he walked when he fled the violence of Sudan's civil war. One girl nicknamed him Sleeper, for the time he was so exhausted he lay down in the middle of the road and tried to die. The other guy sitting across from me, next to Valentino/Gone Far/Sleeper, has just one name: Dave Eggers...
...years, recording 100 hours of interviews and visiting Sudan together. What could have been an awkward literary three-legged race became instead a synergistic collaboration. In person there's an obvious and rather touchingly empathic bond between the two: Eggers is the confident, gregarious one, while Deng speaks in quiet, melodious, not-quite-grammatical English. "Dave would listen to me," he says, "and he would write and send me a chapter, and I see him in me. And I ask him sometimes, 'How are you able to put yourself...
...hoped that wasn't the most interesting part of him B) He hadn't mentioned it because of ABC's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy C) His parents didn't know, so could everyone keep it quiet? D) He has never received a text message from Mark Foley...
Tobe, to his credit, was able to quiet the Dartmouth offense for the entire third period...