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Consider then Act I: It's nine o'clock in the morning as Emily (played by Sada Thompson, who'll also assume the other three female roles as the play progresses) moves into her new, four-room apartment with the aid of Frank, her mover (Nicholas Coster). Emily has lost her husband. A widow then? Frank asks. "Well, I don't mean I lost him on the street," she quickly answers. I am, myself, divorced, Frank hastens to explain. And with that the two enter into a conspiracy to fill each other in on the details of their lives before...
Pound is known as the great mover and teacher of the "modern" poets, and he's remembered as the anti-Semitic "reactionary" who hoped to sell America Fascism over the Italian radio. His daughter sees him most clearly not as the artist or the political man, but as a sage so heroically proportioned that he could deal on an immediate personal level with anyone. He was able to order his life consciously, despite the anguish he suffered from loving two women at once, and despite his incarceration as a traitor in his homeland...
...papers at a profit. Says Emmett Dedmon, 53, editorial director of the Field papers: "Sooner or later, there has to be one afternoon paper." Neither side, however, will let the other have an afternoon monopoly or be the first to fold. Publisher Marshall Field V, at 30 the prime mover of Field Enterprises, admits that "the losses are stupid." He accuses the Tribune Co. of "playing brinkmanship"-stubbornly taking deficits on Today in hopes of forcing the Daily News under. One block away in the Tribune Tower, H.F. Grumhaus, 68, the crusty, reticent chairman of the Tribune Co., will...
Niebuhr's fresh, demanding analysis brought theological ethics into the midst of the secular arena, influencing the pragmatic liberalism of many prominent Americans, including George Kennan, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and James Reston. Niebuhr was a prime mover in Americans for Democratic Action and New York's Liberal Party. His political biography reads like a history of the left in his time: socialist disillusionment with capitalism, then with Marxism; pacifism, later abandoned during the rise of American isolationism and European fascism in the 1930s; cold war strategy to counter Communist expansion, followed by apprehensions about U.S. power...
...alive," and we must rely on him, and a few occasional glimpses of this spirit and compassion, to believe in Punch. What does become clear is that somehow a wonderfully alive human being has been transformed into a bundle of hate. Keyes, the moved one, rather than Punch, the mover, is the one who tells...