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...first major compositional success came in 1931 with his symphony No 2 and was followed in 1936 by The Peaceable Kingdom, both of which won widespread critical acclaim...
...psychology, says that "many books have been written about the psychology of sex differences, but the majority haven't been deep or profound. Carol is one of the few people who has written an insightful book on the subject." But McClelland says that while Gilligan's work has received acclaim in the academic community she "has quite a way to go to develop empirical backing for the female perspective she describes...
...sense of storytelling won wide audiences for such novels as The Young Lions (1948) and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970), but who will be remembered critically for his short stories of the 1930s and '40s; of a heart attack; in Davos, Switzerland. Born in Brooklyn, Shaw first won acclaim for his antiwar play Bury the Dead in 1936. He attracted a wide following with his short stories in The New Yorker, particularly his exquisite evocation of a young man's obsession, The Girls in Their Summer Dresses (1939). Renowned in writers' circles for his generosity to young...
Since last September, when Act I, Scene B startled Rotterdam, the CIVIL warS has been unfolding in impressive national installments. The German module, which comprises parts of the opera's first, third and fourth acts, was unveiled in January to popular acclaim in Cologne. It was followed in March by Act V, with music by Glass, in Rome. Late last month the U.S. made its contribution to Wilson's epic with the premiere in Minneapolis of the Knee Plays, crucial connecting episodes tinged with delicate orientalism that link the vast work's 15 scenes. All the sections...
Shades of gray are hard to come by in South Africa. That beautiful, terrible land invariably tempts writers to reduce it to black-and-white terms, to find a moral in its every predicament, a sermon in its every scene. Playwright Athol Fugard, 51, has won international acclaim by resisting the impulse to moralize. Such dramas as "Master Harold" . . . and the Boys, Boesman and Lena and A Lesson from Aloes do not preach against the evils of apartheid; they give institutionalized racism a human face, sometimes stolid, sometimes collapsing in laughter, tears or rage...