Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speak up," he told the half- full theater, "but I'm not very good...
...regular child prodigy, MARSHALL BALL has had to overcome much to share his gift. The 13-year-old from Austin, Texas, whose recently published book has already gone to No. 4 on Amazon.com's best-seller list, is unable to speak and barely able to move, having been born with a still undiagnosed illness. He composed the poems and thoughts in Kiss of God: The Wisdom of a Silent Child by tapping on a primitive letter board. Ball's tenaciously loving parents read him literature and played him music from the time he was still an infant...
...brainer. At St. Vincent's Home for Boys he was choking on a flood of words and impulses in need of release. "Language bubbled inside me now, the frozen sea melting, but it felt too dangerous to let out." Over the next 15 years Minna encouraged Essrog to speak (in shouts, non sequiturs, stupid riddles) and taught him the new vocabulary of belonging. Essrog and his buddies became Minna Men--detectives who knew how to follow Minna's orders blindly...
...refer to him as my "stepdad." My 15-year-old cousin Adam insisted on saying things like "So, does your stepdad let you have girls over?" I wondered if his hostility came from my having eaten his bruschetta. At the brunch, I discovered I was going to have to speak after the slide show. A slide show that was accompanied by Unforgettable and, I'm pretty sure, included some photos that cropped out my father...
...sociology professor Schlesinger. The tragic irony is that many immigrants come to the U.S. in search of a better life for their children and grandchildren. But in order to achieve the goal set by their elders, the younger generation must assimilate, and when they do, they become strangers who speak a different language and live by an alien code. "The grandparent has achieved his American Dream," says Schlesinger, "but at a terrible cost." Exacerbating the alienation is the fact that because the Americanized grandchild is more adept at navigating the new world, says Teri Wunderman, a psychologist who works with...