Word: margarida
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...Peace Prize was probably the most important day in the history of East Timor [WORLD, Oct. 21]. After more than 20 years of Indonesian occupation, the country and the East Timorese deserved this award. Now the world can no longer pretend that conflict in East Timor does not exist. MARGARIDA SERRA Odivelas, Portugal...
During Scarry's class one semester, Brown gavea reading from a play titled Miss Margarida'sWay, adopting the person of a tyrannicalteacher. When a professor in the classroom next tothem began banging on the door in anger, Brownmerely incorporated the situation into herperformance. Flying to the door, she proceeded togive the startled professor a verbaltongue-lashing for daring to interrupt the class...
...Margarida Amaral, an Eliot House dining hall worker, house payments, $400 a month in grocery bills and a son she hopes to send to college next year don't leave a lot of extra money left over from her $1600 monthly salary...
...Like Margarida Amaral, the guard has a son in high school...
...Brazilian Playwright Roberto Athayde's feeble premise that the theater goers are the students, and they are encouraged to answer back only to be squelched by Miss Margarida, a form of bearbaiting, not dialogue. If the play means to be a parable of political tyranny, the point is fully made in the first ten minutes. More probably, Playwright Athayde means to say that we are force-fed prefabricated information throughout our lives. He also goes cosmic over morality with the appearance of a skeleton .nd Miss Margarida's big bad news: "You are all going to die." Without...