‘Cory is beautiful’

(The following essay was written by Mrs. Lourdes “Ma’am Gee” Gamutan, an English and Literature professor at the Holy Cross of Davao College.) Cory! by Ma’am Gee She held my hand in a warm clasp. I looked into her kind, lit-up face. While it was not yet my turn for her attention, I sized her … Continue reading →

Cory Aquino: Transformed by her times

Corazon Aquino was not the patriotic woman that we’ve come to know and love until her death. She was in her own words “a plain housewife”–a housewife who belonged to a wealthy land-owning family at that. But like Lorenzo Tañada, another Marcos opposition stalwart, who, in Randy David’s words, “belonged to that generation of aristocratic … Continue reading →

Nery-ed

In his yesterday’s Inquirer piece, John Nery said: The reluctant symbol. Cory Aquino, the self-effacing politician’s wife, became a national figure only—but immediately—after the assassination. Perhaps we can consider her speech during Ninoy’s funeral Mass on Aug. 31, 1983, as the moment she assumed her new role as the true leader of the opposition. *** … Continue reading →

Rising above ourselves

There will come a time in our lives that we have to make a big decision—a decision whose consequences we are uncertain of. It is not easy to make such a decision, so we’ve got to really admire those who have mustered a mammoth of courage and made that decision. History is strewn with great … Continue reading →