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Michener has necessarily compressed much of that history into an almost biblical form, begetting his own intertwining generations of English, black and Afrikaner families-the Saltwoods, Nxuma-los and Van Dooms. He describes the public politeness and private ruthlessness, the arranged frontier marriages-homely Dutch orphan girls shipped out to lonely farmers-and the Afrikaners' thousand torments, among them, the first modern concentration camps, set up by the British during the Boer War. Michener reconstructs that war, and its scenes of tenacity and loathing. Says one Afrikaner, summing up the lessons learned in that conflict: "When you are twelve...
...that has got-up and gone so many times over the season at just the wrong times. Who knows? Maybe they'll find inspiration in the neon lights of Broadway; maybe they'll come back ready to take on the world of hoop intercollegiate competition, just like little orphan Annie and her vacuous stare takes on the big, bad world: maybe they'll be swishing to the sounds of Broadway like the Harlem Globetrotters and their Sweet Georgia Brown...
...There is the pretty girl he falls in love with, and her father, "the very model of a modern major general." And there are the cowardly police, led by Tony Azito, and the pirates, so inept and soft-hearted that they will spare anybody who claims to be an orphan. After a time every ship they capture is unaccountably manned only by orphans...
...seventh of twelve children born to a working-class family in gritty Bayonne, N.J. An orphan at 17, he began as a $48-a-week laborer. Now, he is the principal stockholder of the $50 million-a-year Schiavone Construction Co. in Secaucus, a "realization of the American dream," he says proudly. But Ronald Reagan's choice of Raymond James Donovan, 50, to be Secretary of Labor probably owes less to his business acumen than to his accomplishments as a political fund raiser. By Donovan's own account, he raised more than $600,000 for Reagan...
While Edgar was typing, Nunn asked all of his 43 actors to initiate their own research projects, read the novel and select which of the 157 characters they wanted to play. Roger Rees and David Threlfall, who are, respectively and wonderfully, Nickleby and the orphan Smike, are the only two actors in the piece with only one part to play. All the others average six: usually two major roles and a gallery of minor parts. R.S.C. Designer John Napier, who made all the costumes, took Polaroid photos for reference and found at the end that he had assembled an album...