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...Witch and the Wardrobe” at churches, according to businessweek.com. A ten-minute sneak preview of the film in Wheaton, Illinois “drew prolonged cheers and applause…from a specially invited crowd of ministers and church leaders,” according to the Chicago Sun-Times.According to Professor Jason W. Stevens, who teaches English 197, “Religion and American Film,” Biblical themes have been present in the American cinema since the silent era. However, in the past, these movies either aimed for a broad audience or were “movies...
DIED. FANNY MCCONNELL ELLISON, 93, writer and founding director in 1938 of Chicago's Negro People's Theater, who was acknowledged by many--including her husband Ralph Ellison--to be a key editor and adviser on his 1952 masterpiece, Invisible Man; in New York City. The couple, who were married from 1946 until his death in 1994, met after Fanny told a mutual friend, poet Langston Hughes, that she wanted to meet a man with an interest in books...
...Clearly, there are good arguments on both sides about the no-release policy. And were HBS only proposing to adopt an optional release policy, the debate would be less heated. Student bodies at the business schools of Stanford and the University of Chicago have done end-runs around official policy by banding together to enforce no-release policies over the official optional release policies of their schools. Since students own their grades, as the Staff note, they should be able to do with them what they want. HBS administrators, however, are saying that if this optional release policy is adopted...
...John Stirratt into vocal overdrive as they shout: “Maybe all I need is a shot in the arm/Maybe all I need is a shot in the arm/Something in my veins/Bloodier than blood.” This blood courses through the end of “Via Chicago,” where Tweedy and Stirratt soar out of a cacophony of raw sounds with: “Rest my head on a pillowy star and a cracked-door moon that says I haven’t gone too far,” dovetailing seamlessly with the song?...
...began its life as a comic strip, and its animated counterpart shares a plot setup: Huey Freeman (voiced by “Ray” girl Regina Hall) is a 10-year-old who lives with his brother (also Hall) and grandfather in a largely-white suburb of Chicago. Huey is unhappy with that particular aspect of the situation, and is the series’ narrator and social commentator...