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...time Lillian Hellman died, 12 years ago, she had done all that was humanly possible to shore up the public image she had laboriously fashioned for herself. Biographical details had been eliminated, anecdotes shellacked, letters burned--many of them after she had extracted them from their recipients. As America's most prominent woman playwright (The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes) and the author of various memoirs (Pentimento, Scoundrel Time), Hellman wanted the record closed, and on her terms...
Other members include Associate Professor of Government Louise M. Richardson, who is the department's head tutor, Associate Professor of Government Peter Berkowitz, Assistant Professor of Government Christopher Gelpi, Assistant Professor of Government Joel Hellman and Assistant Professor of Government and Social Studies Bradley I. Palmquist...
Despite Harvard's victory, Hellman is realistic about its implications. He feels that the invitational's format, in which the top 16 swimmers earn points, was a definite advantage for the Crimson, which was able to exploit its depth...
Those feelings, in Hollywood movies, have always been the privilege of heterosexuals. Anything else was a threat, a jolt, anathema to the theology of movie fantasy. In 1936, when Samuel Goldwyn filmed These Three, from Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour, he removed the accusation of lesbianism from the plot. In 1947's Crossfire, RKO changed the homophobia theme to anti- Semitism. Interracial tolerance was in the air; homoeroticism may have lurked under every gruff bonding between cowboys, gangsters or G.I.s, but as for gay love, Hollywood dared not speak its name...
...infallible ear for the spoken word and an eye for telling detail. Whoredom's vignettes are encased in prose so pellucid and evocative that readers may want to stop and reread passages just to savor their rhythms and imagery. Take a look back at Mahoney's reaction to Lillian Hellman's remark about "the little Irish girl." You could do a ton of reading before catching a sentence as fierce and fine as that...