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...decide to try the next best authority on all matters erudite: the Harvard University English Department. A few cold calls later and a sage, sonorous voice greets me at the other end of the line...
...female painter, Alex. As a character whose lack of image had made her remain outside the mainstream high school community, Alex is taken aback when the popular, iparty girls,i at her Los Angeles high school attempt to integrate her into their social strata. Thrown into the milieu is Sage, Alexis best friend, a savvy nymphomaniac, and Curtis, the cute new boy who has just left Colorado to escape the haunting memory of his fatheris death...
...Cobbett is a pompous English import who bloviated in his Porcupine's Gazette on behalf of Hamilton and his law-and-order Federalists. His rival in vitriol is James Thomson Callender, wanted for sedition in his native Scotland. He was Jefferson's hit man who, when slighted by the Sage of Monticello, spread informed innuendo about his arrangement with slave and lover Sally Hemings. Public reaction to the disclosure makes the Clinton-Lewinsky affair look like a casual game of spin the bottle...
...total, the women mention the art of autumn leaf placements--a "therapeutic activity, much like reading the books at Buck-A-Book"-- quote e.e. cummings `15, "To be thy lips is a sweet thing and small" and discuss everything in between. A neatly scrawled blue ballpoint hand offers sage advice, "You cannot change what has already past; but how you deal with the past is in your hands...
...Jewish community were taken from their homes in the small Transylvanian town of Sighet and transported by train to Birkenau, the reception center for Auschwitz. During the days and months that followed, Wiesel lost his parents, his sister, his innocence and his peace. Witness, activist, writer and sage, Wiesel has since devoted his life to the fight for human rights and for remembrance...