Word: rosenblatt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...find it sad, and unsettling, that there are so many countries Roger Rosenblatt had to choose from...
...could hand life over to a stranger, and that is a power of nature too. The man in the water pitted himself against an implacable, impersonal enemy; he fought it with charity; and he held it to a standoff. He was the best we can do. -By Roger Rosenblatt...
...list of war zones was narrowed to five: Northern Ireland; Israel, including the occupied West Bank; Lebanon; Thailand, where survivors of Cambodia's years of terror have fled; and Hong Kong, refuge of thousands of boat people from Viet Nam. Rosenblatt spent a week in each area, meeting with scores of children. They talked...
...When I set out, I had no idea what I would find," Rosenblatt recalls. What he found was at once simple and confounding: "That children persist and, miraculously, are still kids." Sums up Rosenblatt: "I feel more like a messenger than a writer." TIME'S readers will be grateful, however, that he has brought a writer's eye to a story that so truly measures the strength of the human spirit...
...Roger Rosenblatt...