Word: caroling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...stray comment by the pathetic prisoner, Jones concocted a story of a night on the town gone wrong and the resultant misery caused. It's one of those tracks that, because of a certain atmosphere and sadness, stands out from the rest of an album - think "Home Again" on Carol King's "Tapestry," or "Broadway" on Alison Krauss's "Now That I've Found...
...reprieve was short-lived. As happy as Friday night was, Team Gore had known there was a good chance the U.S. Supreme Court wasn't done with this. The morning conference call was no carol sing; it was going to take a lot of work to get the recount machinery going again. And the Republican soldiers, lawyers and politicians alike, were loaded for bear: "This judicial aggression must not stand," said majority whip Tom DeLay...
Such absolute estrangements may not be the norm, but experts who study family relationships believe they are on the rise. Psychologist Carol Netzer, author of Cutoffs: How Family Members Who Sever Relationships Can Reconnect, thinks that today's broader cultural freedoms have made it easier for people to say goodbye to traditions and to relatives. "The nuclear family is not as tight as it once was," she says. Some rifts reflect larger trends. The Woodstock generation, Netzer explains, was full of young people leaving their families to lose themselves in drugs or join religious groups, political movements and communes. "Often...
...began sliding into digital obsolescence. But those not yet ready for the brave new reading world can mark 2000 by the extraordinary output of new fiction from big-name veteran authors, all producing energetic work at age 60 or older: Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, Doris Lessing, Joyce Carol Oates, Edna O'Brien, Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, John Updike. The year also brought posthumous books by Joseph Heller and Mario Puzo. The millennium has so far been generous to readers. In with the new! In with...
...carol included lines like "Hey, Neil, are you listening?/There are things that need fixing," and "Clear the Harvard name/Of exploitation and shame/We can build a workers' wonderland...