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...concerns, and its significance, reached beyond the stage. Founded at the dawn of the Depression, the Group was avidly though not dogmatically leftist; Co-Founder Harold Clurman said, "We are not going to be restricted by Marxism." Organized and run more or less collectively, the ensemble slowly splintered as members' careers led them elsewhere; it broke up entirely by 1941. Eventually, some of the founders were barely on speaking terms, and some of those feuds continue today...
...TIMES by Harold Pinter...
...Times, Harold Pinter's 1971 play, is perhaps his most gnomic meditation on this, his most preoccupying theme. A woman named Anna (Jane Alexander) comes to visit her roommate of 20 years before. She discovers (if she did not already know) that Kate (Marsha Mason) is married to a man named Deeley (Anthony Hopkins), with whom Anna had some ambiguous contact. Anna has a taste for hot climates, hard angles and social dominance. Kate prefers the steam from her long baths, or a heavy rain to blur reality...
...Africans alike. The New Year's Eve coup in Nigeria was only the most recent recurrence of a pattern of failure that has gripped the continent. Black-ruled Africa is suffering today from a political and economic malaise that few could have imagined when British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan spoke eloquently in 1960 of the "wind of change" then sweeping the continent...
...theme of the unforgivable offense reverberates up and down the 20th century, perhaps because such a crime is thought to be more against man-or more accurately, more against the tribe-than against God. Harold R. Isaacs, a journalist and political scientist, observed in his 1975 book Idols of the Tribe: "We are experiencing on a massively universal scale a convulsive ingathering of people in their numberless grouping of kinds-tribal, racial, linguistic, religious, national. It is a great clustering into separatenesses that will, it is thought, improve, assure, or extend each group's power or place, or keep...