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...proved themselves incompetent performers. They lit up the screen - only to be consigned to oblivion. I smile in recollection of the pretty passion that Nina Mae McKinney poured into "Hallelujah," the agitated grace Fredi Washington invested in "Imitation of Life," the power and subtlety of Paul Robeson in "The Emperor Jones." And I curse the absence of all the other sharp or magnificent characters these artists and countless others might have embodied, if only the door had been opened, if only... if only everything had been different...
Resplendent in his military uniform, Prince Regent Hirohito in 1921 watched the making of a movie in Tokyo. Amazed at this novel way of capturing his country's way of life, the Emperor-to-be gave the new medium official approval, spawning a government-sanctioned industry that created thousands of silent motion pictures. After the rise of Japanese militarism led to the havoc of World War II, most of the country's silent movies were considered lost to history. "Some of the surviving films were destroyed by American occupation forces," says Joseph Anderson, author of the 1983 book, The Japanese...
...Lankan institution. It was a center of British colonial life and later the playground of the rich and famous passing through the island. Lest you forget its illustrious clientele, the hotel has a bronze plaque listing its celebrity guests, with names ranging from famous to infamous: John D. Rockefeller, Emperor Hirohito, Indira Gandhi, Imran Khan, Bo Derek, Carrie Fisher and Kurt Waldheim...
...Kirkus applauds "The Emperor of Ocean Park," the much-buzzed-about first novel of Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter (Knopf), giving it a rhapsodic starred review. "This sleek, immensely readable first novel by Yale law professor Carter, author of such provocative nonfiction as 'The Culture of Disbelief' and 'God's Name in Vain,' is custom-designed for the kind of commercial success enjoyed by John Grisham's 'The Firm' 11 years ago...a melodrama with brains and heart to match its killer plot." First printing...
...discipline policies, the allocation of space, the social environment of the College—students clearly have an interest in these matters, as well as first-hand experience that would contribute to Harvard’s deliberations. Current students are far more likely than Faculty subcommittees to tell the emperor that he has no clothes. Even in the tenure process and in the selection of high University officials, including student representatives would help ensure that good teaching and attention to the undergraduate experience remain at the top of the Harvard’s priorities...