Word: heavenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...voices demanding attention, explaining themselves, complaining about the way the world has treated them. "Man has no more freedom than a bedbug," insists one. "In this respect, Spinoza was right." Another tells how jealousy drove him crazy: "I now hated all women. Lifting my hands to heaven, I swore never to marry." The narrator asks, "Did you keep your word?" The laconic response: "I have six grandchildren." Singer's people seldom shy away from expounding on the mysteries of existence: "People often say that one cannot understand the ways of the Almighty. Yet the ways of human beings...
...Claudia is at last defeated by cancer, but she has a good death: "Gradually, the room is filled with light . . . and she is filled with elation." That puts her ahead of the dying Goethe, who, in his last words, had to ask for more light. Up in heaven, one can be sure, Claudia will use it against...
...first professional theater job was with the Longwharf Theater in New Heaven, where she worked for six seasons. Since that time she has acted in many theater roles, both in and out of New York. She has won several Obies and a Tony...
...would have been proud to have written Yeats' "The Fiddler of Dooney," and Francis Thompson's The Hound of Heaven. I am profoundly moved by Psalm 139, especially those three verses...
...give a public reading, I often choose Vachel Lindsay's "General William Booth Enters into Heaven," which is a poem of its own kind, and has | no mate in English literature. The first six stanzas are semiserious, semicomical, but I always read the last stanza with caution, in case my voice should break...