Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Almost eight-thirty. The strolling accordion player breaks away from "The Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head," plays a fanfare, and the march into the next room for dinner has begun. The family staggers towards the long head table. The accordion player plays "Here Comes the Bride"; my grandparents enter...
Dinner is anything but "sit-down." I don't think either of the guests of honor stayed in their seats for as long as five minutes at a time. Table-hopping like you've never seen. A woman walks over to my mother. "Lil tells me you are going to...
Reb, who is married to Sam, one of the bounciest men alive, is one of my grandmother's closest friends. When Lil was paralyzed by arthritis one day this year, Reb sat up all night talking with her, keeping her company. She and Sam are younger than my grandparents; their...
"I taught in Harlem during the depression," she said. "Then in a middle-class school, in Jackson Heights. Some of my black students were brilliant, some not. They kissed me goodbye-each of them-every single day. And now-something has happened. I get letters from friends who still teach...
Dessert has come and gone. The final rites-toasts and speeches-are about to begin. Sid Lotenberg, at the end of the table, is the emcee. He stands up, attempts as best he can to get a semblance of quiet, and asks the crowd, "Does anybody know what was happening...