Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This fall's production, Master Harold is about a 17-year-old South African boy in the 1950s and his relationship with the two Black, middle-aged servants who have raised him. The play was written four years ago and is a fictionalized account of the childhood of its author, Fugard...
...decided not to include this as a chapter in Huckleberry Finn. The tale is perhaps too completely black; it evokes throughout a strange mixture of gutlaughter and gut-fear. One thing's for sure: having read it, you won't think the same of Huckleberry Finn, or its avuncular author, again. Not for abjurers of dead baby jokes...
Allan M. Brandt is an assistant professor of the History of Medicine and Science. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Social Medicine and Health Policy at the Medical School and in the Department of the History of Science. He is the author of No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States Since...
William Alfred, Lowell Professor of the Humanities and author of many pieces performed at the Theatre, served as a member of the"Resurrection Committee" responsible fororganizing the commemorative event. In hispresentation, he praised the unity of the companythrough the years despite artistic differences."They fought like wet cats," he said of thecontributing artists. "But they had a sharedvision...
...people are more qualified to analyze nuclear arms strategy than the author, who served as Director of the CIA under President Richard Nixon, Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford and Energy Secretary under President Jimmy Carter. His assessment for TIME of what almost happened in Reykjavik...