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With the pastiche ideology of post-modernism the theater has lost the appetite for the strong emotions and extravagant gestures that once were associated with the word "dramatic." Somehow, a cheesy melodrama like Dietrich's Dishonoured or Bogart's Maltese Falcon seems truer to the human heart than any new work I've seen on a stage in years. The theater, always a comfortable haven for dry intellectuals, may well have hypertrophied to the point that it is just an expensive substitute for The David Letterman Show...
...think everybody gets a little something different out of it," said future Fellow William Dietrich, a reporter for the Seattle Times. "When you get out in the world you don't always have time to stop--the University is handing out an opportunity to do that," said Dietrich, adding that most of the Journalists selected are in their mid-thirties, and ready to take stock of their careers...
...Dietrich said the Nieman fellowship is attractive because of Harvard's prestige and the high caliber of the program's participants. Distinguished alumni of the program include columnists Ellen Goodman '63 and Tom Wicker and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors J. Anthony Lukas '55 and Anthony Lewis...
...Dietrich intends to concentrate in the areas of history, American religious thought and economics to aid in his coverage of national security issues, and of the new religious currents he sees developing in the Northwest...
...also want to use the year to just plug some holes in my education," said Dietrich. "The additional education will be of value in my future work--it will show up in my stories and how I do them...