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That is the factual background of this vivid historical novel -- part poignant biographical fiction, part raw frontier epic. Like the author herself, a former ballet dancer and granddaughter of a white slave, the narrator is an American woman residing in Britain who returns home to learn the true story of her grandfather, which he had recorded in coded diaries. Jonathan Carrick had been a "boughten boy," indentured when he was four for $15 to an ice-hearted tobacco farmer named Alvah Stoke. Dickensian is too amiable a word for Jonathan's ordeals. He slept on a dirt floor with...
...American playwright uses factual material more imaginatively than Lee Blessing, whether speculating about arms-control negotiations in the witty A Walk in the Woods or ruminating on how the national pastime embodies our darkest heritage in the antiheroic biography Cobb. He hits a new peak in TWO ROOMS, a depiction of a Beirut hostage and his grieving wife that merges harrowing narrative with elegantly poetic, and redemptive, visual and verbal imagery. A brilliant, too-brief off-Broadway staging by James Houghton, starring Jeffrey Hayenga and the unforgettable Laura Esterman, has just closed. The play deserves further productions around the country...
However, there was one factual error in the article that I feel must be corrected. Ms. Arden-Smith claimed in her article that due to overcrowding, "even seniors are deprived of opportunities to choose suites with singles." Thankfully this is not true. All Winthrop seniors have singles within their suites. In fact, Winthrop House is not more crowded than Eliot House these days. Perhaps first-years will be relieved to know that the housing office does take care of us, and has been in the process of fixing our overcrowding. Finally I would like to add that while our "high...
...College students scream along with their band, Northeastern fans sing their team's praises to the rafters and Boston University spectators nearly bring the Garden balcony to the floor." Mayo demeans the effort of every one of the students who went to the game. The editorial is filled with factual errors. His comments regarding the Boston College and Northeastern fans would surprise anyone who was actually at that game. There was little "screaming" and even less "singing," maybe because there were only about 500 fans in the Garden for that game...
...expressed concern that the errors might "give ammunition involved in hate propaganda" to Holocaust revisionists, who might use the factual discrepancies to support their arguments that the Holocaust never occurred...