Word: reade
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...claim that the memorials become "indiscernible rhetoric" and simply fade into the background when hurried students quickly pass through the Yard. In fact, each year many people stop by our Holocaust display to read the informational material, light a memorial candle or simply listen in silent reverence as the names are read. Even for those who don't stop, the sound of the individuals' names injects a sobering reminder of a tragedy which may otherwise have been forgotten. This kind of public display is incredibly important, particularly as the number of living Holocaust survivors is decreasing and the number...
...there that summer when she got the letter about the boy she met at Middlebury College. She opened it gleefully and sat back to read the articles his parents had sent her about his graduating with honors, despite fighting stomach cancer. She left me the part she didn't see--his obituary. Those were the longest seconds of my life, knowing I was about to shatter her happiness with such heartbreaking news...
...claim that the memorials become "indiscernible rhetoric" and simply fade into the background when hurried students quickly pass through the Yard. In fact, each year many people stop by our Holocaust display to read the informational material, light a memorial candle or simply listen in silent reverence as the names are read. Even for those who don't stop, the sound of the individuals' names injects a sobering reminder of a tragedy which may otherwise have been forgotten. This kind of public display is incredibly important, particularly as the number of living Holocaust survivors is decreasing and the number...
Best not to know this about Greer, perhaps, and better to read her book for its flashes of light on a perpetually murky subject. And best too to let Greer have the last word, since she will no doubt seize it anyway. "I don't want to tell people to do anything," she says. "I have put down what makes my heart ache, and either it will be helpful to people...
Once I had read some actual backside statistics that Sanchez had gathered--in Seattle, of all places, a city the rest of us associate with outdoor physical conditioning of a level somewhere between conscientious and grim--I remembered that a year or so ago, when I'd had the occasion to share a few meals with some American wine distributors who were visiting individual producers in the south of France, I'd noticed that each distributor seemed to be almost precisely the size of a French family of four...