Word: sheds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Italians, by contrast, are trying to shed their past. "It is not true that they enjoy and are at their best living precariously in a disorderly country," insists the author. Instead, "they have dreamed the same impossible dream of being one day governed with freedom and justice, of being able to dedicate their energies solely to their work and not to the task of avoiding cramping and frustrating laws or defending themselves from dangerous and powerful enemies." Paesanos fantasize about "living an honorable, transparent life in peace in an honorable, transparent country in which there should be no need...
Beyond the aesthetics of the thing, writing one's own ceremony may reflect a basic misunderstanding about the event. If bride and groom repeat the same vows their parents repeated, the vows they may expect their children to repeat, and if the same tears are shed now that were shed five generations before at the same rite, then the ceremony has its continuity and resonances. The formality may be boring, but it is not meaningless...
...scruffy old Maravilla barrio calls himself Diablo. He wears a sleeveless T shirt, so his tattoos are plain. Diablo, 23, spends most of his free time hanging out with a few fellow members of the Lopez-Maravilla gang. They look tough. But at a meeting in a tool shed late last month, they were mostly concerned with planning an upcoming rummage sale. There are some 300 Mexican youth gangs in L.A., and many are violent drug users: police say 260 homicides last year were gang related...
...late 1970s, however, these groups increasingly as contact with the BSA and, at the same time, largely shed their political undertones. Recent leaders of Kuumba, Diaspora and Black C.A.S.T. agree that their respective organizations have become more exclusively artistic endeavors. "The Black contribution to American art is important enough and of itself to be the sole concern of Black C.A.S.T., former president Patricia S. Bellinger '83 says, adding "politics is not higher than...
...student (the loyal Wendy would sometimes get up at 5 a.m. to correct misspellings in his English papers), he found comfort in fantasy. Whenever he or Wendy got a dollar, they would march down to the drugstore and buy ten comic books, which they would then read in a shed behind their stucco house on Ramona Avenue. Several carloads of comics were passed on to his sister Ann's children a few years ago, but they have since been returned to George, a legacy perhaps for his own daughter. When he was ten or so, TV replaced the comics...