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...family he hears for the first time his family's legendary epic song. He is struck by how the "words and voice alike might as easily have come from the mouth of dead as of the living." The music of the strange boxlike instrument the musicians carry is akin to "the hollow...inside his own chest...
...closely akin. Although her six novels contain few autobiographical traces, they constitute intensely imaginative responses to the specific historical and social pressures she has experienced as a black woman in the U.S. The imagination is all hers; the pressures have been the inheritance of millions, including, now, those who have read her books...
...Writing and publishing "The Real Anita Hill' has been a real education," Brock told an audience of about 100 in a lecture sponsored by the Government Department. An education, he said, that was akin to being tarred, feathered and ridden out of town on a rail...
Applying to college is becoming akin to declaring free agency. Ultimately, the issue of finding the most suitable school is obsolescent to a large majority of students seeking aid: The burning question is no longer which is the better school, but which school offers the "better buy." Longtime the domain of professional athletes who have achieved free-agency--the practice is to sign with whichever team makes the best offer (for the running back Rocket Ismail, this meant playing in Canada instead of the NFL)--we cannot ethically superimpose the practice on college admissions...
Part court spectacle, part history lesson, part medical thriller, the play is above all a vehicle for Hawthorne, in a role akin to Lear. His George III even reads lines from Lear to one of his physicians in a scene indicating recovery. The action is set in 1788 and 1789, and the U.S. colonial uprising is just a bitter memory. The piece focuses far less on politics than on family life and the ambitious scheming of the Prince of Wales...