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...first act involves Carr, Gwendolyn (Katharine McGrath), Carr's sister and a Joyce patron, Joyce himself (played by James Booth), and Tristan Tzara, the Dadaist artist. While on orders from London to keep an eye on the Bolshevist Lenin, Carr finances Joyce's theater troupe in a performance of Ernest, for which Joyce promises him the lead role. After the opening library scene, the lights dim and the spotlights come out on Carr, an old man in a housecoat who sets the scene and reminisces about the old days in Zurich. The play, but especially this scene, showcases the talents...
...Gwendolyn Brooks, L.H.D. We think of you primarily not as a woman, or a black, but as a poet...
...interesting. He's preacher, not a pastor or reverend, of some fundamentalist church up in Cabin Creek, and one of the leaders of a group that tried to remove English books from the Kanawha County schools a year ago. The textbooks included short stories by James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Gwendolyn Brooks, other radicals. One of the formative experiences of my life was seeing Avis Hill lead a group of women down a street in Charleston to the building that houses the school board, where they built a pyre of the godless books. They were singing "We Shall Overcome...
...Committee. Then the Rev. Marvin Horan of the Leewood Freewill Baptist Church took up the crusade, and opposition to the books spread among the county's strict fundamentalists. They took exception, among other things, to Sigmund Freud's Character and Anal Eroticism, selections by Pulitzer-prizewinning Poet Gwendolyn Brooks and Authors Dick Gregory and Eldridge Cleaver, and a profile of Poet Allen Ginsberg featuring a description of a prostitute, all of them for use as supplementary texts in high school English classes. Also attacked was a collection of myths that appeared to challenge the literal interpretation...
...first two issues, reprints of pieces by such authors as T.S. Eliot, Black Poet Gwendolyn Brooks and H. A. Rey (Curious George) outnumbered original contributions. But new material dominates the two most recent issues (November and December), in which the contributors include Novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer and the prolific children's writer Elizabeth Coatsworth. Assisted by such diverse characters as the Unhappy King of Gargantak and the Two-Toed Tree Toad, Cricket has already attracted more than 100,000 subscribers...