Word: dramatistic
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Like a good dramatist, Remnick centers his whole story on one amazing night when Ali proved his claims, cashed in his chips and changed his identity for good. Up until his epic first fight with Sonny Liston in 1964, Clay and his chatter had been just a good joke. Suddenly he was the heavyweight champion of the world, a position that, like Queen of England and Archbishop of Canterbury, carried certain moral responsibilities. So was Clay planning to be yet another credit to his race, like Joe Louis and Floyd Patterson, or was he going to be the other kind...
...Padua, patron saint of lost objects. The saints are distinguished by their virtue and piety, and it is remarkable how few practitioners of the arts there are among them. The only painter ever canonized was St. Luke, but he was one of the four Evangelists. No novelist or dramatist has ever been elevated to sainthood. Nobody, in the eyes of the church, ever tap-danced his or her way up the stairway to paradise. And the celestial city does not seem to have needed architects, since (one presumes) God designed...
...time Winfrey was a teenager, her gift as an orator and dramatist had won her considerable popularity at both church and school, and she often recited moving depictions of slave life. She began using the iron-willed protagonists she found in black literature to fire her dreams of rising beyond the back-breaking work that seemed the destiny of most of the black people she knew. "I remember Grandma trying to teach me how to wash clothes and lay them across the line with clothespins, making lye soap, killing the hogs, wringing the chickens' necks, and she'd say, 'Watch...
...place it might have in the world. World War I had destroyed the Old Order in Europe and made a superpower of democratic, industrial America. It seemed obvious to many Americans that they were poised, collectively, to lead the world. And the future American, wrote a Jewish dramatist named Israel Zangwill in a play famously titled The Melting Pot, would be the supreme alloy of obstructive difference: "the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman...
...indeed have children. One of the suit's most substantive claims is that both works include a fictional black abolitionist who aids in the Africans' legal case. But there was no shortage of real-life black abolitionists at the time, and it's hard to imagine any dramatist presenting this story to a contemporary audience without an African-American activist at its core...