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...world, paying bills and registering to vote. Then around the time I turned thirty, I made an astonishing discovery: if you set your mind to it, being a grown-up can be even better than being a kid, because you have more money and a car. Grown-ups doen't have to steal tiny bits of plywood from a building site. They can buy entire sheets...

Author: By Sarah E. Silbert, | Title: Wild Adventuring... at Home | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

...other hand, Salovaara treats his character, George Tesman, with appropriate zeal and with particular stress on the comedic. As Salovaara doen't take his character too seriously, his performance is one of the play's funniest...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Hedda Strong | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

Subdued hope is the most ebullient of Robison's emotional promises, but her restrained wit and craftsman's ear for dialogue make An Amateur's Guide to the Night a quiet treat. It doen't light up new arenas of expression, but it does help establish her as a master of the minister and a portraitist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Night Travels | 11/30/1983 | See Source »

Peter Shaw's latest book, American Patriots and the Rituals of Revolution, addresses this ambivalence, as many historians have doen before, but Shaw examines the problem from a psychohistorical perspective. Shaw argues that the American patriots, individually and collectively, partook in ritualized behavior that eventually resulted in insurrectionary impulses, or, in the author's words, "rehearsed a revolution." By participating in ancient rituals of early American society and ammending them in their own particular ways, the patriots displayed a nascent and ultimately unstoppable desire for independence...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Sins of the Fathers' Fathers | 7/31/1981 | See Source »

Aerial Navigation is perfect for the man who loves airplanes but doen't have the necessary twenty-twenty eyesight, and up until last September the Army had restricted this kind of training largely to men "washed out" of pilot courses. Now, however, there is a greater demand for navigators, and the Army is recruiting heavily from civilian ranks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNCLE SAM WANTS STUDENTS FOR AIRPLANE NAVIGATION | 10/7/1941 | See Source »

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