Word: authorly
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...Once the reader resigns himself to Kugel's rather perfunctory treatment of literary topics, he can then begin to enjoy Kugel's luxurious strolls through the Biblical forest. As the author points out a flower here, a bird there, all the while quoting liberally from diverse sections of Scripture, the fascinating nuances of Biblical thought are enlivened and made relevant to the modern reader. Sometimes Kugel dips into our own popular culture to clarify an idea, such as his citation of The Wizard of Oz as an example of theological disillusionment for which there is no Hebraic equivalent. At other...
...play takes ten years and three writers to make it to the stage, you can bet that it shouldn't have made it there at all. But such ominous artistic omens didn't prevent Producing Director Peter Altman of the Huntington Theatre Company from adapting Nobel-prize winning author Edwin O'Connor's 1956 novel, The Last Hurrah, into a theatrical event. Speckled with scheming politicos, snooty aristocrats and down-to-earth Irish-American folk, O'Connor's novel, a sweeping panorama of '50s Boston political scene, seemed a perfect recipe for dramatic success, right? Wrong...
...weak national government does not guarantee personal liberties, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills told a 200-member audience at the Institute of Politics (IOP)'s ARCO Forum last night...
...that haircut. TinTin is marginal in the U.S., but for some reason he's been a popular subject for French intellectuals. They have many, many books on him--one says he's a drunk, one says he and Captain Haddock, his companion, are lovers, and several claim the author, Herge, was a Nazi." Vaux is currently translating TinTin into a number of endangered languages--Singaporean English, Calypso (an English-based Creole spoken on St. Thomas), and Cape Verdean...
...Author of New York Times best seller The Overspent American, Schor is known to most undergraduates as the spirited professor of "Shop 'Til You Drop: Gender and Class in Consumer Society" a.k.a., Women's Studies 132. In that class, Schor argues that shopping has been trivialized in this country mainly because of a gender breakdown in which people associate consumption with females and production with males. Contending that the acts of purchasing and shopping are actually a very important component of American society, Schor then critiques the adverse affects of consumerism. For 10 years Schor has analyzed the relationship between...