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...Grawemeyer Award, which is given jointly by the University of Louisville and the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary seeks "to honor and publicize insights into the relationship between human beings and the divine and the ways this relationship may empower human beings to attain wholeness, integrity or meaning...

Author: By Alison D. Overholt, | Title: Eck Wins Grawemeyer Award for Recent Book | 6/6/1995 | See Source »

...Harvard audience watching the current touring production at the Colonial, for example, the tale seems eerily familiar. Wasn't this just the subject of a national uproar? A juvenile, branded a criminal, overcomes unsurmountable obstacles through strength of character to attain ephemeral renown, only to have the dreadful past arise like a demon to snatch it away...

Author: By Matthew L. Kramer, | Title: Les Miserables Marches On | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

...scenes unique to Providence reward Corrente's choice to film in black and white. Shots of the outdoor food joint Haven Brothers attain a semi-documentary effort-lessness rarely seen in the movies. A pair of excellent cameos by two Federal Hill residents--one a tailor who admonishes one of the boys for a "funny money" deal, the other a pawn shop owner who, after sizing up a stolen ring, tells Ralph to take the ring, get out and not come back--relax the occasionally awkward machinations of the plot and makes the Hill feel real...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: Slow, Tough Climb Up `Hill' | 2/9/1995 | See Source »

...billion Supercar program. The goal: development of a joint prototype vehicle that will achieve fuel economies of 80 m.p.g. by 2004 "while maintaining performance and cost of owning today's cars." Since internal-combustion engines, no matter how efficient and sensor studded, are unlikely to attain so high a gas mileage, the Supercar partnership is looking elsewhere. Aided by scientists at the U.S. National Laboratories, it is exploring such power sources as fuel cells and gas turbines, along with such energy-storage devices as flywheels, ultracapacitors and innovative, lightweight batteries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMART'S THE WORD IN DETROIT | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

...says he agrees with Song, but adds that allAsians who attain positions of influence, have acertain duty to aid their fellow Asians...

Author: By Michael M. Luo, | Title: Breaking Asian-Americans the Mold | 2/1/1995 | See Source »

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