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...show, written by Aphra Behn and directed by Partick Demers, runs a somewhat lengthy three hours but keeps a brisk pace throughout. It chronicles the complex misadventures of a group of Englishmen as they experience a variety of romantic troubles. Though the play was first performed in 1677, the plot seems strikingly modern—relationship problems are always relevant...
...Englishmen at Harvard...
...subcontinent, the school became the center of a forward-looking movement that sought to reform and unite Muslim society in a country now ruled by non-Muslim foreigners. The key was education. They were suspicious of Western learning and British attempts to educate Indians to think like Englishmen. The Deobandis, as they are called, sought to create a new generation of learned Muslims, self-confident and able to use the revealed texts and Islamic law as a roadmap for modern life. They opposed hierarchies in every form and opened their doors to the poor, offering free education to all students...
...amass runs no matter how fearsome the bowling he faced, but in the ability of those storied exploits to lift his nation's spirits through the tribulations of the Depression and World War II. As writer Thomas Kenneally put it, "When we spoke of literary figures we spoke of Englishmen, but when we spoke of cricket we spoke of our own. No Australian had written 'Paradise Lost,' but Bradman had made 100 before lunch at Lords...
AWARDED. To MATTHEW KNEALE, 40, British novelist, the coveted Whitbread Book of the Year award for his tragicomedy, English Passengers; in London. The epic novel interweaves the voyage of a group of bigoted 19th century Englishmen searching for the Garden of Eden and the genocide of Tasmanian Aboriginals. Kneale won the $33,000 prize by the narrowest margin ever, on the chairman's vote...