Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While introducing a poem from his book, Time and Money, Matthews said that the intent of the author is not always pure...
Lopez, an author, health care administrator and community activist, joined a list of six other candidates endorsed by the CCA for the November 7 elections...
...over the rules of an exercise, and the teacher breaks in to ask them to talk about what they're feeling. "I appreciate the way you're being assertive in talking with Tucker," she says to one student. "You're not attacking." This strikes McHugh as pure folly. "The author is presuming that someone has the key to the right emotions to be taught to children. We don't even know the right emotions to be taught to adults. Do you really think a child of eight or nine really understands the difference between aggressiveness and assertiveness...
...appear only on the album, not in the stage production. Nevertheless, Newman's work is savory enough on its own to guarantee a fair return under any auspices, except, perhaps, Carol Channing's. Bilious, outrageous and full of flinty, funny challenge, Faust has undergone sardonic transformation from what the author calls Goethe's "big brain thing" into a fleet Newmanesque parable of eliding destinies and colliding cultures. It is also guaranteed to contradict any lingering impression that, as Newman notes, "people think I've disappeared." But, he adds quickly, "it's not like I'm selling a million records...
...author's edged, chill language fits his subject. Of tribal elders in a bar, he writes, "The three older men looked like the frail members of a government in exile, deeply versed in the politics of failure." Of a newly alcoholic reporter who covers the killings, McNamee observes, "He had somehow acquired the psychic credentials of the drinker, the sad, proclaiming spirit." There is an eerie exactness in these passages that pins meaning to the wall with a knife blade. Now and then, as in his evocation of a mother's "low-keyed and costly cries of love," his reach...