Word: authors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...STOPPARD is an irreverent playwright, but the Dunster House production of two Stoppard farces almost expires beneath an overly-reverent treatment of the author's script...
Based on Dutch author Harry Mulisch's novel, The Assault is the story of a Dutch man's coming to grips with history and his own past. As a 12-year-old boy in early 1945, Anton Steenwijk (Marc van Uchelen) lives under the shadow of the Nazi occupation of Haarlem. Despite the food and fuel shortages, the almost-defeated Nazis have a minimal effect on the lives of the Steenwijk family, who try to evade history by translating Homer, reading Spinoza, and playing board games...
...capturing the inner worldof his subjects; in his portrait of his daughter,he uses a lighter palette to show the happy natureof the girl as she clasps a bouquet of flowers inan open field. Tolstoy, on the other hand, iscaptured in profound contemplation, theself-imposed simplicity of the author's later lifeaccented as much by his stance and costume as byhis countenance...
Joseph Horowitz, the author of Understanding Toscanini, now can claim a distinguished place on the long list...
...Steven Rosenberg of the National Cancer Institute, a principal author of one of the papers, stressed that the technique "is an experimental treatment in the infancy of its development." Still, he said, "it is a first step in a new direction of cancer therapy. It can work. The challenge is to improve it." In an accompanying editorial, Dr. John Durant of Philadelphia's Fox Chase Cancer Center wrote, "Perhaps we are at the end of the beginning of the search for successful immunotherapy for cancer...