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...sprinted his way into the hearts of Boston's townspeople yesterday with a sub-three hour performance in the annual Boston Marathon. Competing for the KISKO KIWIS. Beach finished 32 minutes behind winner Olavi Suomalainen of Finland and well ahead of author Erich Segal '58. "He's a brave lad. Ben is," said race coordinator Jock Semple. "We've been needin' more of his kind, instead of all those fatsos from C.C. with the weird hats...
What is most remarkable about the play is how effortlessly Rabe goes beyond the war and what is obvious to proceed with the personal story of Pavlo Hummel. It baffles classification and makes world war two dramas like Arthur Laurent's Home of the Brave look like a Yank comic strip. For Hummel the army world is his only hope for salvation, the only remedy for his fatherlessness. And in a way he makes it his salvation. Home on a furlough, his pink-suited, mod half-brother treats him with the mild contempt he always has until Hummel explodes. "Look...
...were more fighters than the film suggests), and to the majority of Frenchmen, who gave the underground more informal help elsewhere in France than they did in the vicinity of Vichy. But Sorrow's subliminal message seems unexceptionable: in crisis, men tend to be self-protective, self-delusive, brave, cowardly, cruel, confused and dangerous; organized hatred and apocalyptic ideology are to be avoided at all costs...
...were highest, was in the 1920s and 1930s, when they won the vote and began to go to college in considerable numbers, with the expectation of entering the professions," says Clare Boothe Luce, politician, diplomat and author. "Women then believed that the battle had been won. They made a brave start, going out and getting jobs." World War II made Rosie the Riveter a figure of folklore, and many women never before in the work force found that they liked the independence gained by working. The postwar reaction was the "togetherness" syndrome of the Eisenhower era, a doomed attempt...
...book is more important to understanding the new perspective than Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, published in 1962. It is an ambitious, cerebral work about a generous, brave and intelligent woman named Anna Wulf, a writer, leftist, divorcee, analysand who, like the author, emigrated from South Africa to London. Anna thinks of herself as "a free woman," independent of marriage contracts and numerous other social conventions, really interested only in people "who have tried the frontiers...