Word: authors
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Roderick MacFarquhar is Professor of Government and Director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. He is the author of the trilogy, The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, of which two volumes have so far appeared, published by Columbia University Press...
...this flawed but sweeping account of the President and the past that shaped him, Author Garry Wills happily records the incident but takes issue with Allison. He sees the President, in essence, as an auteur who "renews our past by resuming it. His approach is . . . associative; not a tracking shot, but montage. We make the connections. It is our movie...
Another playwright Brustein would not touch with a 20-foot curtain rod is Clifford Odets, author of the Huntington's latest offering, Awake and Sing. Odets was one of the most prominent American playwrights of the 1930s, working with the Group Theater, the idealistic, left-wing venture that helped bring the modern theater to the United States. Odets first hit the big time with his Socialist one-act, Waiting for Lefty, which supposedly had audiences on their feet, yelling "Strike! Strike...
...generator of life, not its transcript; the only real plot that stories convey is the process of their telling. Or, as Nathan writes in a letter to Henry, "We are all the invention of each other, everybody a conjuration conjuring up everyone else. We are all each other's authors." Or, as Maria observes, "I know characters rebelling against their author has been done before...
...woman trapped in her writer-husband's hermetic life somewhere in New England. Roth and Bloom are hardly trapped; they now divide each year between Connecticut and her house in London. "We try not to be apart for more than a month at a time," says Roth. The author and the actress are, in some ways, an odd match; she needs people, other actors, crews, audiences for her work just as much as he requires isolation for his. So when Bloom is in rural Connecticut, her enforced idleness leads to a good deal of teasing banter. He: "There...