Word: belovedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In 1907, Gustav Mahler received a death sentence. Although mortality had already permeated the composer's household (Mahler's beloved daughter died of scarlet fever a year before), his family was not destined to hang up their mourning garb quite yet. Another death was imminent. During a routine doctor's...
Goldberg's discussion, which mixed serious social commentary with her distinctive comic shtick, covered everything from abortion rights and spirituality to talk-show-host-turned-movie-star Oprah Winfrey and her new movie, Beloved.
From the front row DuBois Professor of theHumanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. followed,asking Goldberg why she thought Beloved"failed at the box office." Goldberg declined apublic debate with Winfrey.
Beloved
In Beloved, the highly-anticipated adaptation of Toni Morrison's novel, slavery is explored in a subtle, almost metaphorical fashion. It is an exercise in psychology, exploring the mind of Morrison's steel-willed protagonist Sethe (Oprah Winfrey), a former slave who now lives as a free woman in Ohio...