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Although he has put his civic career on hold for the past several decades, Baldwin has remained involved with politics, attending the 1988 Democratic National Convention and working closely with Senator Edward M. Kennedy ‘54-’56 during Kennedy’s 1994 re-election...
In the long run, this name dropping convention is frustrating because overall only about one of every three references are immediately identifiable by a modern audience. Here are just a few from one page: Stephen Boyd, Hope Lange, Suzy Parker, Natalie Wood, Frank Powell, D.W. Griffith, Joan Leslie, Tallulah Bankhead...
Stryon, who started out as a poet, said she first became interested in human rights after an Afro-Asian writers’ convention in Russia and then joined Amnesty International.
In fact, Odom’s party is willing to contest the seats of current Republicans, including, it seems, Senator John S. McCain (R-Ariz.), the 2008 Republican presidential candidate and one of the most prominent and respected members of the Grand Old Party. During the first National Tea Party...
Yann Martel's Beatrice and Virgil begins with a dreary little piece of self-referential play. Henry, the hero, is a novelist trying to write a follow-up to his prize winning first book. Similarly, Martel's Life of Pi won the Man Booker Prize in 2002, and now he...