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...SONS (ABC, May 19, 9 p.m. EDT) Julie Andrews and Ann-Margret play two women who cope very differently with homosexual sons and the tragedy of AIDS, in one of the first TV movies since An Early Frost to tackle the subject head...
...mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile as we may at its folliesx, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with, or even understand; we are too small and too afraid." Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nuding on the Middle Ages. And now you see, having dazzled me, won me by your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your only...
...Being (1984), the two novels that made Kundera, an exiled Czech who has lived in Paris since 1975, famous in the West. Like its predecessors, Immortality swings easily, almost imperceptibly, from narrative to rumination and back again, collapsing the distinction between action and concepts. Kundera's characters must cope with their emotions and with the stresses of daily life in contemporary Paris; but they also embody, sometimes consciously and sometimes by example, a number of nagging problems of existence. What does it mean to be a person in the waning years of the 20th century? If images have become reality...
...incoming class, Dean Clark broke with the rigid custom that requires law school deans to urge their students to go to work for Ralph Nader after graduation, and said instead, "No part of the profession has a monopoly on 'doing good.' Helping people to solve their problems--to cope with government agencies and neighbors and spouses--is essential work of lawyers. So is helping the wheels of commerce turn and helping business produce the goods and services needed by society. Do not let anyone convince you that you are 'selling out' in whatever career you choose...
...city has to be able to cope with change, and there is a need for change now in Cambridge," Anderson says. "There is room for a civilian capacity from what I understand, and a commissioner provides that needed middle ground between the citizens and the city...