Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...essay which sparked the government move against Doi Dien is a three-part series entitled "25 Years of the August Revolution: Building Socialism in North Vietnam." Father Can noted in an interview that the first part, 'Ho Chi Minh's government's war to win independence from the French," was omitted from the government's indictment...
...want to get married, or don't care to have children, or would rather loose their creative spirits on a symphony or a novel, or indeed, run away to Israel and join the Army. But given Mailer's novels, his journalism, his marriages and his latest essay, "probably...
...interview several years ago, Mailer made a casual remark which he repeats several times throughout the essay. It would not be accepted casually today. "The prime responsibility of a woman," Norman Mailer said years ago and is still repeating, "probably is to be on earth long enough to find the best mate for herself, and conceive children who will improve the species...
...WHAT Mailer finally considers Millett's fatal flaw is the way she butchers the literary material and the writers she criticizes. D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, and Jean Genet all fall under her carving knife. (So does Mailer, for that matter, but in the Harper's essay, he seems to be too, er, modest to reflect on Millett's criticism of his own work, except in passing.) He is, however, swift to show us how and where the good woman wrecks havoc...
...with an interpretational gloss thrown on his work by Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein in 1940 presented a production at Sanders of Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock. Bernstein adopted a "cantata form, from the piano." Lehrman, himself the director of a 1969 Cradle Will Rock production, explained in a 1970 essay about Blitzstein. This is "exactly the way I plan to stage my own adaptation and translation of Brecht and Eisler's Days of the Commune for the 100th anniversary of the Paris Commune this March-under the auspices of Winthrop House and the November Action Coalition...