Word: petra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...1970s he became a lecturer on psychology and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and principal psychologist at Cambridge Hospital. In 1992 he received the Petra Shattuck Teaching Award at the Extension School...
...stage, but a great deal of this production does a splendid job of suggesting the atmosphere that would generate such a style. In the first scene, where Tobias (Billy Hulkower) is haunted by the crabs, the actors swirl in an eerie and effective dance. The scene where Petra (Neela Pania), who interprets the smell of roses as a sign from God, dies and is buried, is a knockout, probably the most powerful moment in the production. Petra's death and interment take place against a back-ground of the villagers' overlapping voices, repeating phrases in an incantatory fashion. The effect...
...year-old former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington D.C. office, Shattuck has served as an active volunteer leader of Amnesty International in the United States. He has also served on the boards of the National Security Archive, the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, the Petra Foundation, the Fund for Peace and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights...
...DEATHS WERE AS PUZZLING AS THEY WERE A contradiction of what Petra Kelly had stood for. Ten years ago she was the personification of the German environmental and peace movements. One of the founders of the German Green Party, Kelly was a member of the West German Bundestag until 1990, when her party failed to win enough votes to remain in the parliament. Over the years, she had fallen out with many of her fractious party colleagues and became a marginal figure. Her compatriots were shocked into remembrance of Kelly, however, when she and her longtime lover and fellow Green...
...Petra Kelly's death is extremely tragic for those who knew and loved her. Whether the motive for her shooting was personal despair or a political grudge, it has very frightening implications for what the global fight for ecology and human rights represents to those who dedicate their lives to it. Her murder must not, however, shatter the ideals of those who are still fighting for a world in which both humans and ecology are treated with the love and respect they deserve. I want to honor Petra Kelly by continuing on in her work for humanity...