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Athol Fugard has set My Children! My Africa! in Camdeboo, South Africa in the autumn of 1985, and the different ways his three characters choose to fight the lunacy are freighted with historical poignancy. "Mr. M" (Allen Oliver) wants sustained change through education and discipline, but his protege Thami (Donald Swaby) wants direct action, revolutionary action. Isabel (Eliza Gagnon) is afraid that, in the upheaval she knows is necessary for change, Thami will dismiss their friendship as "an old-fashioned idea...
None of us choose our moments of epiphany. I wish that mine had occurred while I was poring over Hesiod's Theogeny or Wittgensteinian tracts. Life unfortunately is not often subtle; its punches are direct and (if you emerge unscathed) illuminating. Earlier this autumn, I was in front of an upscale Manhattan emporium, an indigent family, authentically caked in grime and clothed, literally, in rags, a stark contrast with the bored impolitically furclad matrons streaming out of the store. (Yes, the Dickensian parallel is deliberate...
DATES OF HIGH SIGNIFICANCE fill Germany's autumn calendar, none more freighted than Nov. 9. The day marked the third anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 54th commemoration of Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken Glass, when Nazi street gangs left the nation's synagogues and Jewish businesses in flames and nearly 100 dead. The remembrances of these moments of national euphoria and historic shame mix uneasily -- never more so than this year, when the echoes of that distant event drowned out those from the recent past...
Sometimes an issue that has been simmering for years comes into sharp focus. This autumn the role that women play in the church is causing turmoil in two large, parallel denominations, the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church. Last week Anglicans voted to ordain women as priests, and this week American Catholic bishops meet in Washington to discuss a pastoral letter on women's participation in the faith...
...breezy autumn afternoon in 1876, a motley crew of nervous Harvard freshmen lined up opposite their Yale counterparts in the first-ever freshman intercollegiate football game...