Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yale also got a thumbs-down from Susan N. Dekle '89, whose twin sister will attend the New Haven school. "People think it's funny that we're going to rival schools," says the Savannah, Ga. native. "We visited the Harvard campus, and I fell in love with Cambridge and Boston--Harvard's atmosphere is better than Yale's atmosphere...
...common sense; Dad is either absent or a bit vague, less in touch with the forces of wonder. As described by Steven, Arnold was neither a hero nor a villain, but a hardworking perfectionist. "Steven's love and mastery of technology definitely come from our father," says Steven's sister Sue, 31, a mother of two who lives outside Washington. "Mom was a classical pianist, artistic and whimsical. She led the way for Steven to be as creative as he wanted to be. We were bohemians growing up in suburbia. And everything was centered on Steven. When he was babysitting...
...unconsummated, the odd reason why cannot long escape becoming common knowledge. As before, Singer's tales of rural life reveal the complexities of so-called simple folk. In A Nest Egg for Paradise, a prosperous and pious Jew named Mendel falls victim, once, to the seductive appeals of his sister-in-law. He tries to hide his shame and suffering from the neighbors, but he brings his anguish to a rabbi in another village. "I've forfeited my share in the world to come," he confesses. The rabbi congratulates Mendel and explains, "The Master of the Universe has plenty...
Even if your experience with photography is limited to instamatic shots of your family at your sister's graduation, you will appreciate how some photographers use large Polaroid negatives while others use infrared film; some use color, others black and white; some make huge life-size prints, others print images only inches long. At the ICA, there are photographs of familiar tourist spots and traditional portraits, ugly Indians and bizarre animals...
Juan and Carmencita Rodriguez, who left Cuba in 1969, are reasonably typical. They settled in New Jersey, where Carmencita had a sister. Juan, 49, a former storekeeper, got a job in an embroidery shop by saying that he could cut lace left-handed. In fact he is right-handed and had never cut lace. Carmencita, 47, a former teacher, worked in a handbag factory and cut insignia for uniforms on a piecework basis at home. "See this finger, see the callus I still have on it," she says proudly. The couple saved enough money to open two gift shops...