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...Snow: 1905-1980 "I'm a fairly clever chap and can put my hand to things," C.P. Snow liked to say. The self-appraisal was a classic of good British understatement. Snow put his hand to a stunning variety of things. He was a novelist, essayist, biographer, physicist, playwright, civil servant, company director, government official. Member of Parliament, teacher and public lecturer. His death last week at age 74 brought to an end not one life but many...
...story was inspired by Frelich's own. Playwright Mark Medoff (When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?) was fascinated by the interplay between Frelich, already an accomplished actress with the National Theater of the Deaf, and her hearing husband, Robert Steinberg, 39, a stage manager and lighting designer. Medoff, who is head of the drama department of New Mexico State University, promised to write her a play. When he finished it, he invited the couple to New Mexico in January 1979 to rehearse it. Says Medoff: "I picked their brains for months in an effort to find out more...
Novelist, short-story writer, playwright, poet, historian of the Gulag and indefatigable polemicist-these are the various vocations that Alexander Solzhenitsyn has long pursued. Now, with the publication of The Oak and the Calf, yet another Solzhenitsyn has emerged: military strategist. This memoir reveals the embattled Russian writer as the master planner of his own personal twelve-year war with the Soviet regime. Few readers of his chronicle of combat will fail to be impressed by the bold forays and feints, the diversionary actions and tactical retreats that ultimately won Solzhenitsyn an unconditional victory, albeit only a moral...
Whatever the sociological pressure gauges are recording on the state of women's lib, Playwright Noonan has written a lighter-than-air comedy on female bonding...
Like a canny Hollywood factotum, Playwright Innaurato has followed Gemini with Gemini II. Again, he writes about an Italo-American clan at warmer than room temperature. The emotionally suppurating wounds are redder than the red badge of self-exonerating cowardice...