Word: tracee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...music, and Zimerman seemed to be having fun with it. For an encore he gave the F-sharp Romance, Op. 28 No. 2, informing the audience that it was the last thing Clara Schumann heard before she died. This was amazing, drop-dead gorgeous playing, but with little trace of the rhetorical duet-like structure of the piece--a secretary's vision of what Schuman really wrote. The audience wanted a second encore, but perhaps deserved to be punished for such a low turnout. Boston audiences should be flocking to hear every artist in the Celebrity Series Aaron...
...face of such horror -- not to mention the apparent suicide of the young gunmen -- few have the heart to trace the blame to the homes that produced the killers. Doubtless too many parents can see themselves in that position to confront the uncomfortable, unfamiliar reality of suburban teenage anomie. In a country where burning yourself with a very hot cup of coffee is considered grounds for a lawsuit, the temptation to place the blame on someone -- anyone -- else is apparently irresistible, especially in the face of such an unconscionable...
FINDING YOUR ROOTS: HOW TO TRACE YOUR ANCESTORS AT HOME AND ABROAD by Jeane Eddy Westin (Tarcher/Putnam). Westin's updated book is the best friend a new family historian can have. Well organized and well researched, Finding Your Roots shows the reader how to make genealogy fun rather than drudgery--how to stay organized, the secret of keeping yourself from feeling as if you're up a family tree rather than building...
...TRACE YOUR AFRICAN-AMERICAN ROOTS by Barbara Thompson Howell (Citadel) meets the special needs of the black genealogist, and the author's enthusiasm is contagious...
Bloodlines--blurred by intermarriages, name changes and the dominant use of matronymics--can be difficult to trace. The Denver Public Library houses 20,000 specialty volumes, plus periodicals, clippings and charts on early Spanish history...