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...riding or "none of us had breath to waste on the totally fruitless complaint that we were not being fed with spoons of precious metal," that is his mother talking. The arias of gentility in Williams' plays, whether they be those of Amanda Wingfield, Blanche du Bois or Hannah Jelkes (The Night of the Iguana), derive from maternal speech patterns. Mrs. Williams' predilections are also present in her son's fondness for plush hotels, in his dropping−and sometimes drop-kicking−names and in his notion that people, particularly critics, are not properly genuflectory before...
...Between Past and Future Hannah Arendt described how the old authority was lost in the modern world; this loss is "tantamount to the loss of the groundwork of the world." Ever since, the world "has begun to shift, to change and transform itself with ever increasing rapidity from one shape into another ... Everything at any moment can become almost anything else." But, while hardly an optimist, she agreed that the loss "does not entail, at least not necessarily, the loss of the human capacity for building, preserving and caring for a world that can survive us and remain a place...
...just view the course as a kind of medicine which one can take to find out what's going on," explained Hannah Judy '78, an English concentrator. "No one told me I had to take it; I just told myself I had to take...
Arlen seizes upon the collective memory of his people and enlivens it with merciless self-examination. His account of genocide has none of Hannah Ahrendt's lofty mandarinism. With tenebrous force he comes to realize that evil's best accomplice is guilt; if the victim can be made to feel culpable, any crime is possible. Like millions of other historical mourners of every persuasion, Arlen once preferred to ignore his roots, at exorbitant cost. For silence can be a plague, and the most chilling question in the book remains the one that Hitler asked two generations...
Against the UMass varsity, Radcliffe coach John Baker has set a boat with Diane Hickman at stroke, Allison Hill at seven, Hannah Shore at six, Karen Oberhauser at five, Gall Rasmussen at four, Marie Adams at three, Katie Moss at two, Robin Lothrop at bow, and Nancy Hadley handling the coxswain chores...