Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life and death. Price easily captures the pleasures of that peculiar American institution called camp and the problems of "that painful fulcrum between frank childhood and the musky outskirts of puberty." Boatner's boys can "smuggle farts like anarchist bombs into the highest and most sacred scenes of camp life," wet the bed one minute and display extraordinary bravery the next, be ruled by their burgeoning sexuality to the point of visiting the barn animals but soar to great spirituality when one of the last members of the camp's old Indian tribe imparts his wisdom...
...name your new book on the Burgess Shale fossil bed in Canada after Frank Capra's movie It's a Wonderful Life...
Miller explores the collective memories of six countries and finds them all in various ways deceptive. The West Germans have made some amends, but they have forgotten too much; the Austrians deny they were Hitler's willing accomplices; the Dutch idolize Anne Frank but overlook the fact that she was betrayed by one of the many Dutch collaborators; the French cherish the myth of the heroic Resistance but began mistreating Jews well before the Nazis asked them to do so; the Soviets steadfastly denigrate the Jewishness of most Holocaust victims; and all too many Americans are turning memories...
Olympic hopeful Meredith Rainey, running an unbelievable six events at the request of Harvard Coach Frank Haggerty, contributed all that she possibly could to lead Harvard to the victory...
SENIOR WRITERS: David Brand, Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Martha Duffy, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Robert Hughes, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Bruce W. Nelan, Frederick Painton, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, Frank Trippett...