Word: santiagos
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...between graphic passages on her daughter's illness, Allende's own despair, and her metaphysical meditations on the life of the spirit. If the line between fact and fiction seems to blur, Allende explains, "magical realism is not a literary device; it's how I live." Growing up in Santiago, she remembers the great aunt "who at the end of her life began to sprout the wings of a saint," and the clairvoyant grandmother who, Allende insists, could move a sugar bowl across the table with her mere gaze. And she tells of how, at eight, she was molested...
Also to be inducted today are Michelle M. Pinto'95, Amanda C. Pustilnik '95, Brigette M. Roberts'95, Livia Santiago-Rosado '95, Molly J. Schachter'95 and Rachel Schlesinger...
...Santiago urged listeners to identify themselves by whatever nationalities they choose and to combat racism...
...external racism is secondary to a larger problem, Santiago said...
...Missing" is like St. Paul's trip to Damascus, when the former pagan saw the light and was converted to the truth and to Christianity. In this case, ED Horman goes to Santiago and is converted to liberalism because he sees that his government has betrayed him and the American people. This film details a man's Coming to Consciousness, and as such it is pedantic, ideological, onedimensional and utterly boring...