Word: hellos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...never thought I'd like a cafeteria in a federal building this much, but I'm starting to grow quite fond of it," he says. "I've gotten to know all the employees. I say hello to everyone. It feels like campaigning...
Just before he flew to the U.S. to direct a splendid revival at Princeton this month of his favorite early play, Hello and Goodbye, dramatist Athol Fugard asked friends at a dinner party, "Am I about to become the new South Africa's first literary redundancy?" Although he tells the story with a twinkle, that fear has hovered over him for years. In his mind he is a poetic playwright, but the world has seen him as a political, even polemic one, and his works are valued more as testimony against apartheid than for their subtle interplay of emotion...
...answer, Fugard hopes, is plenty: "I'm beginning to realize that the challenges I face daily as an ordinary white South African can bring enormous new energy to my work." With Hello and Goodbye having ended its run on Sunday, Fugard is heading back to South Africa, where he does all his writing. In a departure from the rituals of a lifetime, he will begin two plays at once -- one a look at the relationship between young and old "that will be an evident metaphor for what is happening in my country," the other an outright collaboration with five high...
...they pulled out, some of the ordinary Serb soldiers seemed to think peace was coming. On the main road above Sarajevo, crew members were repairing an old Russian-made T-55 tank, its dirty green hull covered with slush. "Hello, my name is Borislav," one of the crew called out. "I'm 28 and a Leo." The war had gone on too long, he said. "It is time to go home. We will be gone before NATO comes...
...guilty. I admit it. Somehow I'm sure we all are. I see people every day in the Eliot dining hall, in my classes, on the street. But the sight of a familiar face often just doesn't seem enough to elicit from me a simple "Hello...