Word: byronic
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...absurdist riff on a pair of minor characters in Hamlet--Stoppard has become almost a genre unto himself, taking intellectual, often abstruse subject matter and turning it into challenging yet playful drama. His game, frequently, is the oddball juxtaposition: moral philosophy and gymnastics (Jumpers); Fermat's last theorem and Byron's love poetry (Arcadia); James Joyce and Vladimir Lenin (Travesties). "Tom said to me once that he decides on one play, and then shortly after decides on a different one," says Trevor Nunn, director of Rock 'n' Roll and several other Stoppard plays. "And then he lets them crash into...
...Senator Byron L. Dorgan, the commission?s chairman, said the 360-page study was "sober reading," a sign that repression was getting worse in China, despite promises of reform. He called the report a "wake-up call" to Washington decision-makers. The Chinese Embassy in Washington was called for a comment, but officials did not respond...
...before being issued; they arrive as comments on the draft opinions of others. "There is very little face-to-face or buttonholing in the hallway," he says. "It is done by letter. So it will be 'Dear Clarence, I don't agree with this point or that point.'" Justice Byron White never failed to sign off with "Cheers, Byron," according to Thomas...
Almost 100 demonstrators came to show support for a House bill that would force the state’s pension system to divest from companies with operations in Myanmar, formerly Burma. The bill, introduced by State Representative Byron Rushing ’64 (D-Boston), is presently being debated by state legislators...
...Square, State Rep. Byron D. Rushing ’64, D-Boston, spoke about House Bill 2729, which he introduced recently. Known as the Massachusetts Burma Bill, the legislation would allow the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board to urge companies to stop doing business in Myanmar and to suspend state pension fund investments in companies that are doing business in the country until a democratically elected government comes to power...