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...publicity fallout from New York's fiscal crisis, a prototype "I Love New York" campaign. Later, as other cities staged their own festivals -- including Los Angeles in 1984 and again in 1987, and Chicago in 1986 and again this spring -- a New York event became an issue of civic pride. By the time it finally got under way June 11, its goal was seen as mainly aesthetic. According to Founder Martin Segal, a financial consultant and chairman emeritus of the city's Lincoln Center cultural complex, the festival was to celebrate the attainments of the 20th century and thereby "prove...
...method, the notion that one thing leads to another. He alludes to a reconciliation between Cheever and his son Ben without ever having explained when or why they were estranged. And Donaldson writes, "As his fame grew, so did the local demands on his time from libraries, colleges, and civic and cultural associations." Exactly two pages later, this sentence obtrudes: "Cheever's reputation was at its nadir...
...intensity is reflected in the audience, which, unusual for Broadway, is more than 80% black. Black churches, civic groups and schools have bought blocks of tickets, swelling the theater with revival-level enthusiasm. "There's a family bond," explains Charnele Dozier Brown, the only American in the cast. During a recent matinee the spectators laughed, stomped, clapped and cried along with the musical's emotional tide. They lifted their voices to the anthem Freedom Is Coming Tomorrow. "You can relate to it," said Gloria Brown, a Newark cafeteria worker. Too much time has passed since the children of Sarafina! have...
Punctuation, then, is a civic prop, a pillar that holds society upright. (A run-on sentence, its phrases piling up without division, is as unsightly as a sink piled high with dirty dishes.) Small wonder, then, that punctuation was one of the first proprieties of the Victorian age, the age of the corset, that the modernists threw off: the sexual revolution might be said to have begun when Joyce's Molly Bloom spilled out all her private thoughts in 36 pages of unbridled, almost unperioded and officially censored prose; and another rebellion was surely marked when E.E. Cummings first felt...
...some PDF officers, and his troops once again employed tear gas, clubs and bird shot to end a relatively subdued round of street demonstrations. The harsh tactics, as well as Noriega's appeals to Panamanian nationalism, led to the rapid demoralization of a recently formed opposition group, the Civic Crusade...