Word: forsters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie chosen to be about this clash of cultures, then Rosebud might have been hard-edged and fairly exciting. Instead it watches Danny try to make friends with an Indian named Frank (Robert Forster), who is consumed by angst and alcohol. Danny also pays a lot of attention to Frank's ex-wife (Victoria Racimo), a situation that eventually gives Frank an excuse to rack himself up in the final scenes...
SINCE HE READS so much, there must be some best-ever book he would like to see made into a movie. "Well yes, actually, one book haunts me: did you ever read E.M. Forster's A Passage to India? You know my weakness for India? You know my weakness for India. Maurice? To be perfectly honest. I wish I hadn't read that book. Forster has always been a kind of idol of mine. I've always loved his work. I met him at Cambridge one, had tea together. Utterly marvelous ... No. I don't think that Maurice should have...
Oppression. Many of these courses emphasize a long history of discrimination and denigration. Joanna Russ, an English instructor at Cornell, is trying to change the rules whereby, as she recalls her own education, "we studied E.M. Forster but not Virginia Woolf. We read Thackeray, who was splendid, but not Charlotte Bronte, who was considered eccentric, minor and dull." In history, too, the emphasis has been changed to the study of "invisible women" whose achievements have been largely forgotten: Dorothea Dix, whose exposes revolutionized conditions in mental institutions a century ago; Sojourner Truth, a former slave and influential abolitionist...
...Other, Tryon (5) 10. Maurice, Forster...
...Tenants, Malamud (8) 10. Maurice, Forster...