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Depending on the success at the polls today, the campaigns of Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey and California Gov. Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown could be seriously crippled...
...movement is grounded in the tradition of Edmund Burke and Abraham Lincoln," says Matthew J. McDonald '92, co-founder of the Peninsula. "But it emanates from the sort of street-corner conservatism, that you'll find in families, say, of South Boston who have never read these guys...
...until I heard Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown Jr. speak at the Kennedy School of Government on December 16, I thought I had developed an accurate assessment of him: unrealistic, anachronistic and obnoxious. After listening to Brown for an hour, I've changed my mind...
...they so desperately seek--either live the lie of the Norman Lear family, or drink themselves into oblivion. The actors in this production do not appear drunk enough to make their concessions natural. O'Neil's stage directions speak of a "real, if alcoholic, affection" expressed between Tyrone and Edmund, but this never becomes apparent. O'Neil; emphasized human kinship as a source of isolation but also of communality--O'Neil's love for his third wife empowered him to write this play and stare his own tragedies in the face...
...Neil described Long Day's Journey as the story of the "four haunted Tyrones," rarely have they been presented as four equally tragic protagonists. Jamie or Tyrone are often remembered as the main protagonist due to legendary performances by Jason Robards, Jr. Interestingly, Gammons has chosen to put Edmund and his disease (all references to consumption are removed, his disease now presumably AIDS) center stage, but Winsome Brown certainly merits the primacy accorded her character...