Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Garbed for another grueling day in the urban jungle, I loped into the dining room. Our children were already at the table, finishing their homework over breakfast. Krishna, the elder, was engrossed in the Bhagavad-Gita; Kikimora, his younger sister, was muttering an incantation in Old Slavonic. (They both attended the International School. Such a melting pot!) "What's today's morning repast?" I asked cheerfully, reaching for the sports pages of the New York Times. "Ambrosia," they answered in unison. How suitably mythological, I thought -- the food of Greece's ancient deities. In Manhattan one can buy damn near...
...same word, "material," returns after many years, to reveal to the mature writer a blindness in the younger writer's understanding of the problem. Young Carver knew that material was a dangerous idea. He knew that putting life into art could be a tool of the artist's selfishness, and that it could slip into manipulation, self-flattery or exhibitionism. But the young Carver believed that irony could help. He believed that if Myers-Carver laughed at the Morgans, it would be all right if Myers-Carver's wife and their separation also leaked into the story...
...narrow to contain them, Hispanics may find their greatest luxury in not being hemmed in by any preconceptions at all. Consider the Los Angeles artist known as Gronk. He has impeccable Chicano credentials: born in 1954 in mostly Chicano East Los Angeles, he was a co- founder in his younger days of an ad hoc group of Latino artists who brought their art to the streets. But all of that was the forcing ground for a talent that resists ethnic labels. His paintings carry echoes of Mexican symbolism, but they also wear the signs of European expressionism, new-wave imagery...
...generation takes its inspiration from the pioneering Hispanic playwrights Maria Irene Fornes (Fefu and Her Friends), Luis Valdez (Zoot Suit, I Don't Have to Show You No Stinking Badges) and the late Miguel Pinero (Short Eyes). Four younger writers particularly stand out. They happen to reflect the major ethnic subdivisions within the Hispanic community -- Cuban exile, Chicano, Puerto Rican and Latin American emigre -- and to embrace literary styles ranging from political invective to lyrical recollection. What distinguishes them, however, is not such representative qualities but a memorable personal vision...
...both ways. In Los Angeles the 3,000-member Jonathan Club (initiation fee: $10,000) is being sued by the city because, though it admits women members, it keeps one dining room for men only. At some clubs the opposition to women has been dwindling with the increase in younger members accustomed to treating women as working colleagues. "It's the entrenched guys who resent the intrusion on their old turf," suggests Alan Baker, a 25-year member of the New York Athletic Club. But even some older men, mindful of their career-conscious daughters, have been having second thoughts...