Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout his travelogue, Richler illuminates general truths with local anecdotes. A grieving memoir reveals the dark side of the immigrant experience and the author's love for his father: the lifelong failure who "came to Montreal as an in fant, his father fleeing Galicia. Pogroms. Rampaging Cossacks. But, striptease shows aside, the only theater my father relished, an annual outing for the two of us, was the appearance of the Don Cossack Choir at the St. Denis Theater. My father would stamp his feet to their lusty marching and drinking songs; his eyes would light up to see those...
...town I know of in Canada. Take the referendum, for instance, called some years back to determine whether or not the town wanted home mail delivery. Yellowknifers voted a resounding 'No,' even though winter temperatures can plunge to 40 below zero, if only because during the long dark months many of them get to meet each other only when they pick up their mail at the post office. And then, a miner, stopped outside the post office by an inquiring photographer from the Yellowknifer and asked what social facility, presently missing, would most enhance the quality of life...
...authors of the letter attribute the hesitancy of many liberal White voters in supporting Jackson to "some dark and secret reason." The reason is not so dark, nor is it a great secret. Jackson could have indeed raised the level of this-presidential campaign by involving an ethnic group of traditional liberals who have supported Black rights in the past. Har-old Washington might not have won in Chicago if not for the Jewish support he received (running against a Jewish candidate). Yet, Jackson chose instead to lower the level by making racial slurs and then attempting to cover them...
...spirit set in the earlier scenes. Director McCreery, who expressed some concern that audiences might see the play merely as an exercise in ridiculousness, need not worry. Artaud wrote occasionally about the similarity between all strong emotional reactions, and he would certainly understand the thin line between dark laughter and somber rapture. The Mather House production spans the line with ease. At the very least, The Cenci is not pompous or boring, and as we approach Reading Period, what other company of speakers can talk to you for an hour and make that claim...
...Tevye is a well-developed character," Sabath explains. "He's a happy character with a good sense of humor but he also has a dark side which comes across as his emotional side in the play." Sabath adds both his sense of humor and his strong emotions allow him to adjust to the whole world falling apart around him. He is the one who is forced to deal with change when the other characters don't realize what is happening...