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Colapinto's performance balance quite well with Edith (not Emily) Bishop's shrewish portrayal of Lady Macbeth. Her performance was, as Mandel points out, exquisite, but she deserved far more praise than Mandel gave her. To eliminate Colapinto from Mandel's list of quality elements of the show, to attack his work as "poor judgment or sheer incompetence," and to downplay Bishop's excellence, is wrong. Mandel is welcome to her opinion, but the mean-spirited tone of the article was both unfair and unnecessary; the highlighted quotes and headlines only helped Mandel blame any and all problems with...
Turn of the century American novelists such as Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the conflict between the Old World and the New, about how the old-fashioned denizens of Europe were supposedly corrupting their fresh, young American counterparts with deceit and superficiality. Almost 60 years later, American journalists and teenybopper magazines used the same analogy of a "British invasion" to describe Beatlemania, couching it in terms of a phenomenon which could not be repelled but which also should not be embraced unequivocally...
...proportion of female officers, whom studies show are less prone to abusive behavior, has increased from 13.3% to 17.4% in the same time period. Citizen complaints are monitored by a new office of inspector general. "It's quite a different face on the Los Angeles police department," says Edith Perez, president of the city's new police commission, a civilian body that oversees the 9,400-member department. Last Friday the city swore in a new police chief, Bernard Parks, an African-American veteran of the force who promised to "provide a better service to the citizens...
...need to tell you what a wonderful person Marge was," said Edith M. Stokey, recently retired associate academic dean and Lucker's tennis partner. "All of our presence here today is a testimonial to that...
Title IX was signed into law on June 23, 1972, by Richard Nixon as part of a larger bill, the Education Amendments Act, proposed by Oregon Congresswoman Edith Green. Though compliance wasn't required until 1978, Title IX has become one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. When it was first passed, there were 31,000 women participating in intercollegiate athletics. There are now more than 120,000 female athletes in the nation's colleges. A survey by Brooklyn College professors R. Vivian Acosta and Linda Jean Carpenter shows that in 1977, a year before Title...