Word: noah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...house at the end of the street in Pacific Palisades is an unpretentious single-level ranch with requisite car port. The torrents of rain that recently fell on Southern California have turned the lawn AstroTurf green. Strawberries, one of Noah's occasional words, are ripening along the walk that leads to the front door...
Seated at the kitchen table reading the sports page and drinking beer, Josh, 50, forms a timeless tableau of the New York apartment dweller. Noah watches with a distant curiosity from the living room couch. The next moment he has vanished, but one can hear him crooning excitedly. "He is having prepublication jitters," says Greenfeld...
...small, phoneless office over a bank on the main street in Pacific Palisades. "It's a full-service bank. I use their Xerox machine, and in an emergency the branch manager takes messages." The writing day can often be interrupted by the need to pick up Noah at his special school or drive him to the day care center that Foumi organized and directs as a volunteer. For a writer it is sometimes an untenable position. "But then," says Greenfeld, "life itself is an untenable position...
...Today is my birthday, that seemingly milestone year of forty-five. But it does not seem a milestone at all to me. I see no great dividing line in my life unless it is the day we do the inevitable and send Noah away. The other night I told Karl we might have to find a place for Noah soon. "I like Noah," Karl said. "He can always stay in my room...
...this point let me be honest with myself: What is my attitude toward Noah? How do I view him? I think, put simply, I view him as a responsibility, someone I have to take care of-almost like a job that has to be done. Because if we don't do the job, who will? It's our job by elimination. And I mean job, just a job. I am no Job and Noah is no great affliction and neither of us is part of any cosmic test-or otherworldly joke...