Word: begger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempt to reconcile her present values with the ethical tenets of her youth. Spurred by her own daughter's probing questions today, Nelly is driven to explain how it is possible for people to ignore evil, to photograph a murder rather than stop it, to walk past a starving begger, eyes carefully averted. The questions are never answered--there are no answers--but out of the explanations come profound observations about the nature and meaning of time. "What is past is not dead, it is not even past. We cut ourselves off from it; we pretend to be strangers," Wolf...