Word: scotswoman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...promise made and understood here is, of course, that the reader is in the hands of a fine storyteller, whose tale, after many turnings, will end as it should. The turnings are traditional. The title figure, a beautiful, not very experienced young Scotswoman, arrives in London to work in the war effort. She and the pilot, Peter Gregory, meet and have a brief, rather restrained romance. Then he disappears on a flight to provision a Resistance group...
Consider Evelyn Glennie, a small, vivacious Scotswoman who has been "profoundly deaf" since she was 12. Glennie is a full-time percussion soloist -- the only one in the classical field -- and one of today's brightest young stars on any instrument. "People have the wrong idea about deafness," says Glennie, 28, currently in the midst of an American concert tour that is taking her to Cincinnati, Washington and Cleveland. "They think you live in a world of total silence, but that isn't the way it works...