Word: quiteness
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...years with Greg. Both born and raised in Brooklyn, they met the first week of her freshman year at Pace University. They watched Ghost on their first date. Defying the marriage-and-kids-can-wait trend, they bought a starter house on Long Island almost three years ago. Nicole quit her job as a speech therapist to stay home with the children. Greg's hour-and-a-half commute to the insurance brokerage firm Marsh & McLennan started and ended in the dark. But on weekends he was all theirs...
Consider: An elderly woman tries to reunite her dysfunctional family for Christmas. Successful urbanites quit their stressful jobs and stream back to their hometowns. A generation of ordinary young folk are called on to risk their lives for their country. These are not examples from a social-trend story about our world after Sept. 11 but the subjects of some of the most popular entertainments created before. The same social changes we are seeing in real life--reconnecting with family, regaining respect for institutions and community, fleeing the rat race--were already rampant in books, in movies and especially...
...AbioCor artificial heart, you don't have to look much further than Robert Tools. The 59-year-old grandfather and retired technical librarian had suffered from congestive heart failure for two years; by last June he was getting ready to die. His liver and kidneys had nearly quit, and he could hardly muster the strength to lift his head off the pillow. His doctors ruled that he was too ill for a heart transplant. They gave him less than one month to live...
...thing that would slowly regress was the Crimson’s backup QB situation. Even though freshmen Ryan Fitzpatrick and Garrett Schires have performed admirably when Rose was hurt, they started way down on the depth chart. Guys like Barry Wahlberg, junior J.C. Harrington and sophomore Conor Black all quit the team...
...won’t speculate on each individual’s reason to quit. Football’s a big commitment, a lot of hours out of the day, and Harvard’s a great place—a lot of things to do and experiment with, and football’s a big sacrifice,” Rose says. “I’d say every player comes close to quitting sometime in his career...