Word: morrison
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...leaders who have shaped this century and whose legacies will help shape the next? At a party last week in New York City, we asked some of TIME's cover subjects to talk about the people who had most influenced them. These speakers included President Clinton, author Toni Morrison, director Steven Spielberg, actress Mary Tyler Moore, statesman Mikhail Gorbachev, scientist James Watson and entrepreneur Bill Gates. Other notables toasted their heroes, including some of the 84 cover subjects who attended (for a list, see page 20). It was a fascinating convergence of extraordinary people. "President Clinton and I have been...
...final 20 minutes of the evening granted audience members a chance to ask Morrison questions about either Paradise itself or her techniques and travails as a writer. Here Morrison displayed a charming sense of confidence and humor. She told one man who inquired about her biblical references, "I was hoping nobody would ask me that...
When another reader asked how she gauges the amount of plot and character information to include, Morrison responded, "I don't know how I do it, but I'll tell you this--knowing that is the difference between an amateur and a professional...
Acknowledging her virtual iconography of black female authorship in a recent Time Magazine profile, Morrison stated that "most of the questions I get after readings or talks are anthropological or sociological or political. They are not about literary concerns." Those kinds of questions were largely missing from the Faneuil Hall session, although the briskness with which the question-and-answer period was conducted and concluded may have been largely responsible...
...Toni Morrison proved her ability to stand in a room imbued with our national history and still put her surroundings doubly to shame, both through the superior power of her presence and the doleful worldly realities she insistently describes. Paradise is not her strongest work, but it admirably continues her long-standing interrogation of how and by whom liberty and union are defined, of when and where they have ever truly existed...