Word: lithuanian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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QUOTE OF NOTE: "There is a Hispanic agenda...it's the same as the Polish, Irish and Lithuanian agenda: If you work hard, sweat and toil and play by the rules, you will be rewarded...
...delivered during the war. A WHO pharmacist working in the Balkans says, "Staff members have risked their lives under sniper fire trying to identify medications that turn out to be useless." Since drugs sometimes arrive poorly labeled, often in a foreign language, errors do occur. Three years ago, 11 Lithuanian women were temporarily blinded by an improperly marked drug that local doctors thought was for a gynecological complaint. It turned out to be veterinary worm medicine...
Intimacy, a lack of pretense and an openness to the freshest, smartest talent were the Vanguard's hallmarks from the beginning. Gordon, a Lithuanian immigrant with a degree in English literature from Oregon's Reed College, first envisioned a neighborhood hangout for bohemian intellectuals-"the kind of place," as he wrote in his memoir, where "when the conversation soared and bristled with wit and good feeling, perhaps a resident poet would rise and declaim some verses...
...Irish don't need much recognition from the rest of the community. They do a good job celebrating themselves. Zukas remarks that he is "constantly amazed at how big a deal St Patrick's Day is to the archdiocese and especially to the Irish. "Zukas adds that 'being a Lithuanian-American, our holy day is St. Casmier's Day...but the Lithuanians tend not to celebrate as visibly...
Given how well Wasserstein turns stereotypes inside out for the rest of her characters, it is disappointing that the daughter Tess is not more three-dimensional. Not only is Tess sick of England, she also wants to join the Lithuanian resistance; not only does she hate her mom's friends, she actually talks about how "bourgeois" it is to have a dinner party when people are starving. The inconsistencies in her character are blinding--she's planning to run away to Lithuania but is working on a summer project for school; she rails against her mother's lifestyle but, after...