Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...climax of the novel Virginia is told by her aunt the reason for her family's sudden uprooting to Arizona: Virginia's mother's discovery of her father's incestuous relationship with his sister...
...opened a card that my sister had slipped me quietly that night before going to bed. She had inscribed a quote from Theodore Roosevelt on the inside cover. Happy are those who live life to its flushed, excited, chaotic fullest, he said. To live in the shadows, to be afraid of failure, is the greatest mistake. I had only rarely done my best as a big brother, and this thought struck me hard as I began...
...expect from the College Experience, and I feel badly because it was just recently that my mind finally caught up to my body. Although I am loathe to admit it, I think that Harvard intimidated me to the point that I lost some of my identity and forgot my sister's advice (via Teddy Roosevelt). I remember reading Julian Barnes' essay in the pre-frosh materials, and I marveled at the time that the President of the Crimson had been afraid to speak up in section as a first-year. Such timidity is reserved for regular guys like...
Marvin's Room has all the makings for an odd and morbid play. Bessie, who takes care of her bedridden father Marvin and her disabled Aunt Ruth, finds out she herself is seriously ill. She reluctantly accepts the help of her long-estranged sister Lee and her two "problem" children, an older boy currently in a mental institution, and a younger one who would rather read 24 hours a day than deal with the people around...
...largely symbolic moves in June further helped Clinton reappear on TV in a favorable light. Addressing a meeting of Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition, Clinton denounced "racist" remarks by rap singer Sister Souljah, who had been on a panel the day before (the remarks, which appeared to advocate killing whites, had actually been made in an interview somewhat earlier). Jackson, who had not been informed of what Clinton intended to say, was furious; he decried it as a "Machiavellian" move intended to appeal to conservative whites. The strategic appraisal, though not the overheated rhetoric, was sound. Clinton was in fact...