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...adds with a laugh. "Fifteen years from now I'll probably still be single."CrimsonJohn C. Mitchell...
William Kennedy's new novel, The Flaming Corsage (Viking; 209 pages; $23.95), turns on two distantly related events. The first actually happened. In 1894 a fast-moving fire engulfed the Delavan House hotel in Albany, New York. Fifteen people died, mostly kitchen help and chambermaids trapped in top-floor workers' quarters later found to have sealed emergency exits. The second event is pure fiction by the author of such raffish and elegiac novels as Legs, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game and Ironweed. In 1908 Giles Fitzroy, a prominent Albany physician, tracks his wife to a Manhattan hotel, where he finds...
...speed of the high-tech revolution has also had quite similar effects. Fifteen years ago, almost all papers were burdensomely typed, and computers were reserved for a few freaks, some of whom would eventually turn into billionaires. Nowadays, however, the technical skills required to utilize the resources of the computer have become a must, and somebody expecting to succeed in either academia or a professional job has to reach an advanced level of sophistication. In addition, he has to keep up steadily with the technological advances. The computer has undoubtedly made many activities easier, but on the other hand much...
Those numbers break down further when one considers that students apply to the acting, directing and dramaturgy programs separately. Only one or two applicants accepted for directing, two to four for dramaturgy, and some fifteen for acting, making this one of the most competitive drama schools around...
...event spanned the whole afternoon. About 20 people spoke and read from the first-hand testimony of Tibetans tortured in Chinese prisons. Fifteen local Tibetans chanted. A statement by the Dalai Lama composed especially for the occasion (the 37th anniversary of the March 10, 1959 uprising) was read. Several Tibetan monks spoke, as did the ex-president of the Tibetan Youth Congress. We collected over 400 signatures on petitions...