Word: sonly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...awake. (When I sleep I give C's.) How? By facts. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for--a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline form; be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all the exams insist at the top, "Illustrate"; "Be specific," etc. They mean...
...survived by his wife, Ann; a son, Daniel, of Boston; a brother, Morris, of Newton; a sister, Helen, of Sydney, Australia; and two grandchildren...
...needed water, he needed pills, he needed Jell-O, he needed to be read to." But however long they lasted, these women never passed caretaker status. He could give his whole heart only to his real mother Gladys, whose death closed the first volume, as her son went off for his hitch in the Army...
Elvis remained haunted by Gladys to the end of his days. He may have been prodigious, but, in Guralnick's thorough and compassionate telling, he could never be the prodigal son. He paid regular visits to her grave, as if trying to reclaim something. He traveled around the country, but he never left home in any deep sense. Indeed, at the end, he hardly left his room. "Oh, God, son, please don't go, please don't die," his father Vernon wailed as Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie, 9, ran frantically around the house, trying to get into the bathroom where...
...kept secret, so that it won't be used by potential employers or insurers to deny us a job or health coverage? Or, if we let our imaginations fly, by still other types of snoops--for example, an overzealous father eager to check out the genes of a potential son-in-law, just as he once might have checked the suitor's credit rating...