Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reagan Era, the plays focus on issues of racism, sexism, sexual preference and AIDS. "Angels in America" traces the AIDS-related death of Roy Cohn, the right-wing assistant to J. Edgar Hoover...
...newest Kennedy myth is even further from reality than the first two. Devastated baby boomers and conspiracy peddlers seem to have put young Americans in a mysterious, alluring haze. The question I heard most often at universities was this: "What was it that J. Edgar Hoover had on Kennedy, so that he could never be fired...
When the editors of the Harvard Crimson asked me that question, I answered, "In 1960 J. Edgar Hoover was the most admired man in the U.S. He saved us from John Dillinger and Hitler, and now he was rounding up the dirty commies. Kennedy didn't even get 50% of the vote. He would have been nuts to fire Hoover...
Nonviolent Resistance to White Supremacy: AComparison of the American Civil Rights Movementand the South African Defiance Campaign.George Fredrickson, Edgar E. Robinson Professor ofU.S. History, Stanford University, and fellow, DuBois Institute. Sever...
...Leigh, Wright's hilarious and characteristically minimalist masterpiece, "The Appointments of Dennis Jennings," is the most gripping, especially for a viewer unexperienced in Two Mikes's unique brand of comedy. The angst-ridden "Appointments" combines the neurotic charm of a Woody Allen movie with the structured morbidity of an Edgar Allan Poe story. Even for those who have only seen him do stand-up on Letterman, the opening close-up shot of Steven Wright's head is a sight unmistakable...