Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gourmet Shoppe & Deli on Brattle Street, where Kelly often grabbed lunch, the worker was "one great guy." Over 800 people attended his funeral, where they remembered him as a "family person, a husband, a father, and a Marine." Clearly, John Kelly made friends easily, and these friends did not wish for his name to be forgotten with the passage of time. On October 28, 1985, the three-foot high brick structure bearing his brass plate was unveiled amid a spectacular ceremony, complete with band, flag-draped platform, military color guard, and a proclamation from then-Governor Michael Dukakis...
...wish for the young people is that they figure out ways to do things that we would never think of in a million years," Berriozabal said...
Forcing kids to engage in activities we deem "useful" overlooks each child's uniqueness and denies them the opportunity to learn the lessons of life for them-selves. When we give kids their own time to do what they wish, they become creative and resourceful. They invent, they wonder, they discover. And most importantly, they learn...
...While Harlan scrambles to put inplace her own system of beliefs, she is roughlypassed through the world from hand to hand, eachfist attempting to squeeze her into a mold ofexpected identity. Her Grandmother and Mother wishher to be the good housewife, but lose her to thecorruptive North. Her husband wishes her to be hiscollaborator in digging up African roots but losesher to her native America. The wealthy Germanhorse breeder wishes her to be the dangerous spybut loses her to decency and self respect. Often,the people who wish to impose an identity upon heract out of their own necessity...
...weighty discussion between the "Unidentified Guest" and Edward Chamberlayne (Sam Shaw '99), the troubled husband whose marriage is the subject of the play, the hysterical, aunt-like Julia (Emily Stone '99) rushes in to retrieve her lost umbrella and maternally questions Edward about his seemingly drunken companion. We wish we could parrot her seeming naivete...