Word: reade
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...1950s I had already read Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon. Also historical accounts about Hitler; why he was never overthrown. I must say I was always against the system. We called it "contra" then. My parents were as well. My father is a bit red. But my mother made sure we were instructed as Catholics. There was always internal resistance. We thought the system could not last long, that we had to accept it as a result of the war, of Hitler's despotism and the cruelty of that regime. Yet we were always afraid of being denounced...
...series of drug deals go down. She spent a second night among more vagrants at a skid row mission. Throughout most of her 48 hours on the streets, she went unrecognized -- until Sister Raymonda, a nun who has known the mayor for years, spotted her resting on a bench reading the paper and whispered, "If you want to conceal your identity, you should remember that homeless women don't read the financial pages...
...Things They Carried returns O'Brien to Viet Nam through a series of sketches and stories that can be loosely read as an impressionistic novel about a man's need to attach human faces to his grief. The narrator, like the author, is a 43-year-old writer named Tim. O'Brien camouflages autobiography with fiction but is not shy about personalizing his intentions. "I want you to feel what I felt," he tells the reader. "I want you to know why a story- truth is truer sometimes than a happening-truth...
...make up for lost time, she has since published three additional volumes. She writes with such easy eloquence that it is hard to believe she has not already enjoyed several prolific decades. The Kingfisher was an outstanding debut -- mature, allusive verse that assumed a reader who had traveled and read a bit. In a climate of minimalists and confessional poets, it was a nourishing refreshment, and it won a well-deserved National Book Award (back when that group saw fit to applaud poetry...
...Tower of Babel" in the nation's grocery stores, Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan last week proposed tough new regulations that would require manufacturers to provide precise details on fat, fiber, cholesterol and other nutritional contents of their foods. Said Sullivan: "Some food labels are hard to read and understand, and frankly some unfounded health claims are being made in the marketplace. It's a real mess...