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...almost every night of the week. I do remember that they all looked tremendously sophisticated and mature,” Heimert says. She says it was not until years later, when she enrolled as an undergraduate at Princeton, that it dawned on her that the Harvard students of her youth were perhaps not that advanced. “I realized that I was not remotely sophisticated or mature,” she says...
...candid and intimate conversation with a priest. Did I believe Father Spagnolia? The fact that he was extremely well thought of in Lowell carried weight with me. I grew up in Lowell's principal suburb, Chelmsford, mowing the local church lawn in summer for extra money, going on Catholic Youth Organization ski trips with Father Coughlin in winter. I knew of famous St. Patrick's, which rises like a beacon in the city's poorest section, a tenement-filled neighborhood called the Acre. On the cold but sunny Thursday when I visited Father Spagnolia, the front doors of St. Patrick...
...English-language equivalent for the general linguistic distance would be something like Beowulf, recently translated by Seamus Heaney, but the very comparison also points up the difference. The Tale of Genji depicts no guttural warriors and marauding dragons, but only the eternity of desire and the fading of youth. When characters wish to express their deepest thoughts, they exchange poems, paying consummate attention to every detail of presentation: calligraphy, color of paper and ink. Once we understand how someone could fall in or out of love because of another person's handwriting (or singing or dancing...
...Mountain of the Women: Memories of an Irish Troubadour is Clancy’s account of the youthful meanderings that eventually brought him to the threshold of a famed musical career. The book is a collection of the vivid memories of an aging man attempting to recapture the glory of his youth, and there is no lack of compelling stories, both humorous and sad. In the first half of the memoir, Clancy grows up in the shadow of the Slievenamon (“Mountain of the Women” in English), so named for the nipple-like cairn...
Fifty years later, Sal and Dean are still on the road and still fresh in the minds of America’s youth. It may seem paradoxical that Jack Kerouac’s On the Road has become such a staple of American high school curricula. Never before has the cultural symbolism of the American road trip faced such serious threats of becoming obsolete. Today’s youth can cross the nation in seconds online, or can catch a high-speed train or airplane for little more than the cost of filling an SUV with a couple tanks...