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...technology, what does your modern-day greedy capitalist do? Build a theme park! That Barnumesque observation (a tad dated in this age of tech multibillionaires) isn't the only thing that's overfamiliar in this dull time-travel tale from the author of Jurassic Park. Here, America's favorite didact is out to learn us a thing or two about quantum mechanics and taking history seriously. His highly educated, lightly characterized academic heroes get their soft hands roughed up battling 14th century knights rather than prehistoric raptors. Crichton has clearly learned from his best-selling history. The rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Timeline By Michael Crichton | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...Stoppard is a rabbit breeder of words-button-tailed, twitchy-nosed, big-eared, bright-eyed and always on the hop. Onstage, words do lead to talk, too much talk, perhaps, in this play, but much of it is exhilaratingly Shavian. In the new guise of a didact, Stoppard comes out for a free press ("Information is light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Lady Be Good | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...work. He was antiheroic; yet in Mother Courage he created one of the most arresting heroines in 20th century drama. As a Communist, he proselytized for the poor, but he was as tightfisted as the socialist Bernard Shaw when it came to his own money. And this coolheaded didact of "epic"theater and "alienation" effects was a sentimental idolater of Charlie Chaplin movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Sonata for Sharks | 5/17/1976 | See Source »

...capital, the crumbling aristocracy. The elusive Iné is a perfect portrait of a working-class Santiago teenager. Along with legends and local lore, there is a great deal of fashionable literary rhetoric that unfortunately tends to make the author's truly bizarre creations more commonplace. When the didact in Donoso pushes the storyteller aside, the book comes perilously close to pomposity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

...Nwafor has great sport with my name. To invoke the street dialect, one can ask: nwafor, whafoah? Because he has been stung by my letter and with a flurry of auto-didact learning ("It is not that I believe with Tolstoy...") and some cheap polemic ("rigid cold war stance") he seeks to obscure the thrust of my query: What could you have learned in 10 days that was so extraordinary that you could share with your class on The Politics of Liberation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAGO VS. NWAFOR | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

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