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...during his 84-year life, America's best scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer and business strategist, and he was also one of its most practical, though not most profound, political thinkers. He proved by flying a kite that lightning was electricity, and he invented a rod to tame it. He devised bifocal glasses and clean-burning stoves, charts of the Gulf Stream and theories about the contagious nature of the common cold. He was a pioneer of do-it-yourself civic improvement, launching such schemes as a lending library, volunteer fire corps, insurance association and matching-grant fund raiser. He helped...
Daniel A. Spitzer ’05 was the clear star of the show as Charlie Brown. Both his singing and acting were strong, and he conveyed Charlie’s dilemmas—be it flying a kite or trying to get the attention of the cute red-headed girl—with sympathy and humor...
...spirits from the mainland's glory days materialized in Toronto. Tian Zhuang-zhuang and Chen Kaige both made their international mark in 1993: Tian with The Blue Kite, Chen with Farewell My Concubine. Both films won festival prizes abroad; both were banned at home, and Tian was forbidden to make movies for seven years. His comeback film, Springtime in a Small Town, is a remake of a 1948 film by the Shanghai director Fei Mu. A young married couple lives in a kind of genteel torpor, broken by the arrival of the wife's ex-lover. More a still life...
...appeared to be having too much fun. Hilary stopped playing the piano and didn't pick it up again until the spring. Normally well behaved, she began asking permission to do even the most absurdly trivial things, such as riding her bike around the block or flying a kite. One day Hilary forgot to pack her Speedo for her practice with the Monmouth Barracudas, the highly selective regional swim club she belongs to. Scared of her mother's reaction, she soaked her hair in the sink to make it look as though she had participated and swore Patty...
There’s a phenomenon in America that’s almost as shocking as discovering that Ben Franklin really did discover electricity by flying a kite in the rain. American readers are finally lifting the ban on the Dead White Male. And heralding his return is author H.W. Brands, whose 2000 release, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, was a Pulitzer prize finalist...