Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Midsummer Night's Dream. Presented by the Open Door Theater at the Pinebank Art Center, outdoors on the Jamaicaway in Jamaica Plain. Performances Thursday through Saturday at 7 p.m. Tickets...
...film shows a healthy, handsome and cheerful people organized as a matrilineal society under tribal chiefs, or "Gran Men." Their laws and customs date back to a precolonial Africa uninfluenced by European rulers. In one scene, a group of pallbearers carries a coffin from door to door so that the obeah, or medicine man, can ask if someone in the house was involved in the death. "Death is rarely considered natural," Actor James Earl Jones says as narrator of the film, "and certain people are divined to be responsible." If the coffin tilts toward a particular house during the ritual...
...rare public speech this spring before the New Jersey State Bar Association, Justice Brennan, obviously unhappy in his new position in a minority, condemned his colleagues for acting "increasingly to bar the federal courthouse door" to "the litigants most in need of judicial protection of their rights -the poor, the underprivileged, the deprived minorities...
...fact that a lot of sad young men were thinking the way Tom was. Presumably they must have liked the novel's reassuring answer, which is, more or less, cherish your wife, vote yes on school bond issues, and existential despair will stay away from your door...
...observes Elie Wiesel, "feels closer to the prophet Elijah than to his next-door neighbor." Analyzing like a good modern, revering like a good Jew, Wiesel portrays in these essays the majestic figures of the Old Testament rather as if he were writing a memoir about beloved but salty grandfathers and great-uncles from the East Side. Certainly Moses and Cain and Abel and even Adam seem as pungently real to him as the Jews he knew as a child in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. In returning to the first Diaspora, the first murder, the first exile, Author Wiesel appears...