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That's a feeling she particularly took away from Capote, in which she played the writer's lifelong best friend, novelist Harper Lee. Lee is a reclusive personality, and the part is essentially a passive one, but she is the only secure anchor in Capote's demonically narcissistic reality. The film's director, Bennett Miller, cites a seemingly small moment in the film as an example of Keener's brilliance. Lee and Truman Capote are at a party after the premiere of the movie version of her one book, To Kill a Mockingbird. It's her night...
...Goodworks International I think that there was a kind of frustration on Martin's part that maybe he had not done enough?crazy as it seems?about everything: about poverty and about ending the Vietnam War. He felt that we were just beginning. He always saw it as a lifelong struggle, and we had been at it for 10 years hardly...
...choice for European Newsmaker of the Year. A man often described as methodical and contemplative - even downright shy - has created a charisma all his own, one that seems to defy our turn-up-the-volume, look-at-me times. At 78, Benedict is the archetype of the quiet, lifelong believer who suddenly sees it is his turn to speak up, a rejuvenated old soul surprisingly well-equipped for his final mission. Father Joseph Fessio, who has known the Pope since the 1970s, said his former professor "actually seems healthier, younger, more radiant, more at peace" since assuming the papal throne...
...special-needs child,” Kumar said. “You never know how much of an impact you can have through a simple act of kindness.” The Phi Beta Kappa induction will take place next Tuesday, Dec. 13. Elected students will be lifelong members...
...life. In time, Lewis became the large, loud, Medievalist who laughed deeply and held late-night meetings for friends and intellectuals. He developed close companionships with fellow academics, most notably J.R.R. Tolkien. On a walk one evening with Tolkien and another friend, Tolkien convinced Lewis that his lifelong yearning for a feeling which he called Joy was, in fact, a longing for God. The friends debated until sunrise, when the middle-aged Lewis became a Christian.Lewis’ conversion from atheism to Christianity influenced the rest of his works and resulted in a series of Christian apologetics. The popular...