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Cammermeyer, of course, is not the creation of a high-minded television dramatist. She is the very real, intensely ambitious Army nurse dismissed from the military in 1992 after revealing that she was a lesbian. Serving in Silence, an upcoming TV movie (Feb. 6, 9 p.m., nbc) based on Cammermeyer's book of the same name, is the fittingly earnest account of her coming out and her subsequent efforts to remain in the Army...
...16th century but in this case put through by the willpower of a single personality. Unlike John XXIII, who had led a sheltered life in seminaries and nunciatures, John Paul was a man of the world who had suffered under Nazism and communism. He was a philosopher, poet and dramatist, but also a very experienced fund raiser and administrator. His pastoral experience was determinative. In Poland he had founded and run perhaps the most successful marriage institute in Christianity, set up to deal with the problems of marital discord, family planning, illegitimacy and venereal disease, alcoholism, wife beating and child...
Coming upon this assertion so early (page 24) in The Western Canon is a little like opening a mystery novel and being told straight off that the butler did it. Bardolatry took root shortly after the dramatist's death in 1616, flowered in the 18th century and has flourished largely unchecked ever since. If all Bloom has to say, as the 20th century winds down, is that Shakespeare is the best, the champ, numero uno, then the necessity of his doing so, at such length, seems dubious...
...Poet lived a life divided by elation and sorrow, each emotion intensifying the glory or bitterness of the other. Fortified by fiery wit and fiery whiskey, Oscar Wilde tackled the foibles of Victorian society with equal panache at the Albermarle Club and Reading Jail. As poet, dramatist, novelist, and aesthete, Wilde succeeded in expressing through his writing the myriad emotions he experienced and observed in the world around...
From her interviews with the grown children of the Kindertransport, British dramatist Diane Samuels has written an affecting drama about a girl whose past was severed as though cut by a knife. "England is quite tolerant in many ways," Samuels notes, "but when aliens try to retain their differences, there is not much tolerance." Her play, now in New York City after its premiere at London's Soho Theatre Company, takes place in an attic, where a middle-age woman sorting through her belongings reluctantly confronts who she had once been. As a nine-year-old named Eva Schlesinger...