![]() A woman my age is seated directly across from me our eyes meet. I am riding on the subway when two young teenage boys burst into the car, bristling with energy, laughing, swearing, thrilled at the possibility they could be seen as threatening. This, this is what brings them out these days? After all the civil rights marches, the anti-war demonstrations, this is the sort of event that galvanizes them? We shake our heads, in perfect harmony.Ĭ. I back up, and find myself standing next to a woman my age whose expression reflects my own almost exactly we immediately start talking. ![]() They are simply waiting for an Apple store to open so they can buy the newest technological toy. An air of sharp expectancy is in the air for a second I am shot back to the protest movements of my youth. ![]() I am walking down a street in Washington DC when I come upon a crowd of young people, standing, sitting, congregating. Is this nuts? Wouldn’t you think-? They go to all this trouble and then this is the best-? Can you believe it? It just goes to show…ī. We fall instantly into one of those senior women exchanges that need no introduction, no explanation, involving head shakes, eye rolls and perfect connection. Clearly the woman my age standing a few feet away is in a similar situation. I’d love to help, but there is no way I can fit in the room. I am waiting outside while my daughter in law attempts to attend to my grandchildren, one of them a newly trained two year old whose bathroom requests are ignored at one’s peril. Sumptuously renovated, that is, in every respect but one: the restroom is tiny, jammed, totally unequipped to accommodate the constant flow of visitors. I am standing outside the rest room near the children’s section on the ground floor of the main Brooklyn Public Library, a sumptuously renovated palace of soaring ceilings and gold inlays. | A Provisional Dictator in Cairo » ABC of Race & Gender By Judy OppenheimerĪ. ![]()
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