Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unimpressed by avant-garde obscurity, Kerr is wary of many of the modern plays his colleagues are so quick to champion. Beneath the plays' tough-minded exterior and the four-letter words he detects a sentimentality that seems to say the world is all wrong while the author is...
Sam Yorty is in many ways the personification of the city he heads. He is a maverick in a land of mavericks, a scrapper who is part political opportunist and part high-minded booster. Like a majority of adult Angelenos, he comes from "back East"-anywhere east of the Sierras...
When Brazil's army overthrew Leftist João Goulart in 1964, the generals declared war on Communism, corruption and - it would almost seem - the Roman Catholic Church. Fearful that Brazil's liberal, reform-minded church was spreading agitation in the depressed Northeast, the generals hauled in priests...
For the most part, haiku in English have been either translations of old Japanese poems or originals that closely imitated Oriental terms and themes. Convinced that the form had other possibilities, Mrs. Maeve O'Reilly Finley, a bouncy, Irish-born fourth-grade teacher in the innovation-minded public schools...
∙It's a Free Country, disguised as a thriller, is a fable that might have been concocted by an unusually simple-minded fellow traveler. The villain of the piece is the British security system, which is apparently feeble enough to let a Burgess and Maclean, a Philby or...