Word: boying
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...tradition of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Geoffrey Wolff spears both social exculsivity and Princetonian pretension with his witty new novel, The Final Club. Wolff charts the voyage of Nathaniel Clay--a Seattle boy who is half-Jew, half WASP--from the deceptively placid waters of the 1950s, through the stormy seas of the 1960s, and finally to a shipwreck at the end of the 1970s...
...religious and nationalistic furies, yuppie loathing, resentment of California and contempt of Congress. So much truly muscular antipathy whirls about these days that it is hard to care as deeply as you are supposed to -- hard even to remember -- that they won't let your son, the grocery bag boy, into their daughter's debutante ball. Which is why it is hard to care about Geoffrey Wolff's new novel...
...conference dispersed. The plane climbed up from Norway and made its way into the thinnest, coldest air. The planet became a fluffy abstraction beneath the wings. Time warped. A man who was in Auschwitz as a boy walked down the aisle to borrow the Wall Street Journal. Someone told a joke about Eleanor Roosevelt. Survivors and ghosts at 35,000 feet -- moral afterlives...
...showy swatch of Saint-Saens. When people start tiring, he is reluctant to lose momentum, but when he offers a choice of beverages or minuets in mock airline- ese, the choice is soft drinks. The ensemble work looks odd at first because Morris rarely distinguishes between men and women. Boy may lift girl, or another boy. The dancers love...
Jean-Pierre Bosze is not likely to be alive a year from now if he does not receive a bone-marrow transplant. Diagnosed with leukemia in 1988, the 12- year-old boy from Hoffman Estates, Ill., has searched in vain for a suitable donor. His father Tamas, his mother and other relatives have had their blood tested, but none has the right type. His doctors have consulted the National Marrow Donor Program of 180,000 potential donors, but the odds of unrelated people matching...