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...Danton’s Death” follows the life of Georges Danton, a prominent figure in the Revolutionary Government after the French Revolution. In the play, Danton is charged with the creation of the Revolutionary Tribunal, which doles out justice in whatever way it sees fit—largely without trials, evidence, or witnesses...

Author: By Chris A. Henderson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Danton's Death | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...initiative, part of the society’s Islam Awareness Week. Khan discussed the similarities among people in different social situations, as well as how the fast—by showing sympathy for those affected by hunger—revealed this commonality. After Khan’s speech, Heather Danton, food security and livelihoods advisor for Save the Children, talked about the organization’s efforts to fight hunger around the world. Danton said the money raised from the Fast-A-Thon would go to the Horn of Africa and Pastoralist Initiative. Danton also said she appreciated the size...

Author: By prathama K. Nabi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fast-A-Thon Raises Money for Hungry Children | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...editor rang back, and Hughes was the magazine's art critic for more than three decades. Things I Didn't Know ends shortly after that promising second call. Left largely untold is what happened next in Hughes' life: a breakdown, the suicide at age 34 of his sculptor son Danton, his happy third marriage to American artist Doris Downes and his rise as a celebrity art historian and author of, among other masterpieces, A Jerk on One End, a charming volume about his lifelong passion for fishing. Clearly, another memoir is required. But first Hughes may have to finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critical Condition | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

...Muslim clerics, of imams and mullahs, across the Middle East and Asia, who have fallen over themselves to provide religious justifications for an anti-American jihad. This is not a new phenomenon: revolutionary movements have always found their leaders among discontented middle and upper class types. Think of Danton and Robespierre; think of Lenin...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Ideology of Our Enemies | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

...CHANCE Remember that Welles was running the Mercury stage op-eration, starring in many of its productions and guesting on radio shows. "Les Mis?rables" came just a month after "The Cradle Will Rock." The "War of the Worlds" episode preceded the Broadway opening of the Mercury?s "Danton?s Death" by three nights. Before the sponsor agreed to move "Campbell Playhouse" from New York to Los Angeles, where Welles was preparing his first Hollywood film, he pulled a weekly transcontinental commute - logging, according to one account, an amazing 311,245 air miles and earning a frequent flyer award...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Mercury, God of Radio | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

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