Word: spirits
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Decades later, transplanted Todd still admiringly remembers Stanford's pioneering spirit. And he's watching Harvard try to nurture...
...fetus' heart may already have stopped beating when Nereciana died. The cause of her death remains unknown: pre-eclampsia may have brought on seizures, or her uterus may have ruptured. But a larger cause is blisteringly clear: Rwanda is a nation so poor in goods and so weak in spirit that it cannot even give birth to a future. Nereciana's death, a tragedy that still lives in Joseph's sad eyes, was part of the slow genocide of hope, a sin that can be undone only by the miracle of an outside world that cares...
...past five years my husband and I have been telling our 10-year-old, who is quite possibly the freest spirit on the East Coast, that maybe she can go to sleep-away camp next summer. But early this year she finally called our bluff, forcing us to move on to "We'll think about it." That was before we encountered the unfortunate correlation between the stock market and summer-camp enrollment...
...arrived fresh from a sheep farm in Australia to claim the land left to him by a deceased uncle, and the newcomer's presence stirs up the villagers. Especially agitated is Joseph Brennan, whose ancestral farm borders Bugler's property. Brennan tries to be neighborly, but his true spirit bubbles up after a few drinks: "Who came first, Bugler or Brennan? The Brennans came first, the Brennans of the moor...
...brouhaha later on, maybe I've got the sequence of events mixed up, too, but I'm not inventing any of it."And so it goes-the tone of German writer Ingo Schulze's new volume of vignettes as novel Simple Stories-clear, punctuated, particularly elegant. Written in the spirit of Winesburg, Ohio, Schulze's musings over the post-Wall East German hamlet Altenburg have been compared to the styles of both Sherwood Anderson and Raymond Carver...