Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JEREMY'S problems are not limited to self-centeredness and disfluencies in his speech. He is also cursed with bad--nearly disfiguring--acne. His father is depressed and unstable; his sister is brilliant and outshines him; his mother is strong-willed and oppresses him along with the rest of her relatives...
...point in the book, Jeremy's mother and object of his Oedipal complex "said in her entire life she'd met only one person more self-involved." The narrator is terribly self-involved, and the narrative cannot help but be overbearing...
Kornbluh and other ARAC supporters said that many current U.S. miltary policies are so contrary to University principles of free speech and self-determination that ROTC could never be allowed back to Harvard...
...music she heard, and the music Parker urged her to make, that brought her out of herself. She was making demo tapes the night she heard that Parker had ODed. But he had left her a legacy: a little self-confidence. And some hard luck. Her first album, released in 1974, is still treasured as one of the seminal singer-songwriter testaments of the decade. There were enervating legal problems over record deals. Her subsequent releases turned unfocused, uncertain. And there were personal tragedies. Snow's daughter Valerie was born with brain damage in 1975. Music was no longer...
...quality can prevail, then the success of Something Real ought to put some long distance between Snow and ditties for AT&T. "If you survive something traumatic," she says, "you are never the same again. If you survive two traumatic things, you take a quantum leap in your spiritual self. You're never the same again. Life is looking up. I am a crying towel, but thank God I can do that. I don't know where I'd be if I didn't cry at least once a week." That's the real beat beneath her new album...