Word: author
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supposed need of men to hurt women, drove home the fears and concerns of the audience. The poet based her devastating work on the true case of a Detroit woman who, while auditioning for a role in a play, was killed with a sledgehammer by its young black author during an argument scene--before the eyes of her four-year-old son. In its final, eloquently angry moment, Lorde repeated the plea and statement, "We cannot live without our lives...
...SELLARS' Much Ado About Nothing is like walking across a room blindfolded--it's easy if you're well acquainted with the terrain but painful and confusing if you're not. Sellars has assaulted Shakespeare's script with the aid of a talented but small troupe, and of the author's carefully pointed satires and balanced symmetries he has left only fuzzy outlines...
...John Bucanan Jr. (R-Ala.), member of the subcommittee on Post-Secondary Education in the House of Representatives; Rep. William D. Ford (D-Mich.), chairman of the committee; and Sen. Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.), chairman of the Senate subcommittee on Education, Arts and Humanities and principle author of the Middle Income Student Assistance Act passed last fall...
...lyric affection for the land and the people animates his characters. Even the Rev. Mr. Broome drops his scholarly tone to write how Irish music "would come to us with the sadness of a lost world, each note a messenger sent wandering among the Waterford goblets." Yet the author is too honest a historian to let sympathy alter circumstances. The first taste of revolution is a heady draft, but the dregs of doom lie at the bottom of the glass. "It was all poetry," observes one survivor wistfully at the end. This thoughtful, graceful elegy is no less...
BORN. To E. Howard Hunt, 60, convicted Watergate burglar and author of 54 books, and his wife of 18 months, Laura Martin Hunt, 34, a former Spanish teacher: a son; in Miami. The child, named Austin Dairing, is her first and his fifth (four by his late first wife...