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...during some of the darkest days of World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited Franklin Roosevelt in the White House at Christmas. He helped the President light the White House tree and in a short speech noted the curious intermingling of doubt and joy enveloping the world: "Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grownups share to the full their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before...
...Bronx Zoo. You stare at the beasts of prey and find a brute charisma in their demeanor. You wonder how you would act if you lived in their world, where aggression is rewarded and decency is crushed. Finally you walk away, tantalized by a view into the darkest part of yourself, glad that that part is still behind bars...
...body of Kurt Vonnegut's writing contains some of the most uncomfortably funny social satire in English. What is offered here is something else, a try at prophecy in the darkest and gloomiest biblical sense. As prophecy it is major or minor, right or wrong, the reader's choice. As literature it is minor Vonnegut...
...Protestant body, since the anti-Fundamentalists have now lost all hope of turning the tide. When computers had counted the ballot cards, editor Jack U. Harwell of the moderate monthly SBC Today remarked that "the holy war is over. The Fundamentalists have won. We're fixing to enter the darkest period in our history." But Chapman believes the Bible battle has been settled once and for all, and that the S.B.C. "will become an explosive force for Christ around the world...
...Finley takes the stage, you're not at My Fair Lady. A typical solo work by the New York-based performance artist involves a flood of ranting * profanity, unspeakable desires, feral behavior and sexual politics. Assuming the character of a rapist or an abusive husband, Finley acts out the darkest imaginings of men, the furies of mind and body that she sees as the source of degradations suffered by women. In the process, she fills the stage with shrieks and spit, sometimes stripping off her clothes and smearing food across her body. In a now legendary piece that she introduced...