Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...afternoon in the coach's house and begin drinking convivially. But as the sun disappears, so too does the bantering and innocuous discussion. By morning, the men have undergone severe tests of the nature of their relationships with one another. They have embarked upon a long day's journey into night, and the movie's similarity with Eugene O'Neil's play runs fairly deep...
...credit, the movie avoids the temptation to stray from the play's focal points. For the most part, the film takes place in the coach's large, wooden house, whose dark paneling, airy rooms and surrounding porch recall O'Neill's description of the Tyrones' house in Journey. And while O'Neill's Mary suffers partly because she has never had a real home, the men in That Championship Season suffer because they realize they have lost their home: the basketball court where everything was understandable and visible, and where all could unite against one opponent. That Championship Season chronicles...
What Miller's screenplay lacks is the consistently moody, evocative tone that O'Neill establishes throughout Journey, a play whose power results in part from O'Neill's ability to make the stripping away of surfaces seem unavoidable. That Championship Season, however, contains too many manufactured twists, a claim supported by the speed with which certain personal crises are resolved...
Last semester, after six years at the Journal, she took a sabbatical and came to Harvard as an IOP fellow. In addition to teaching a seminar, she prepared for a trip to Russia later in 1983. From her journey there in 1979, House knows that since reporters are not allowed to see ministers, it is very difficult for a journalist to get information worth writing about unless he knows exactly whom to ask. House is particularly interested in learning about Soviet economic issues through Harvard's Russian Research Center. With this background knowledge, she hopes to write a five-part...
...latest novel, The Loser, Konrád takes the ultimate journey of the modern European, piling up horror upon horror on the way: the Holocaust, the Gulag, the carnage of World War II, the postwar purges in Eastern Europe, the failed 1956 Hungarian uprising. The literature documenting the inhumanity of the age is vast. Yet Konrád's masterly new novel offers fresh insight into the cruel stratagems of totalitarian rule...