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...that the certainty of fundamentalism? Or was it the initiation into a mystery none of us can ever fully understand? I'd argue the latter. The 18th century German playwright Gotthold Lessing said it best. He prayed a simple prayer: "If God were to hold all Truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left hand only the steady and diligent drive for Truth, albeit with the proviso that I would always and forever err in the process, and to offer me the choice, I would with all humility take the left hand, and say, Father, I will take...
...decade, playwright Eve Ensler has gotten women around the globe to say the word vagina - a lot. Her play "The Vagina Monologues" is an annual institution at theaters worldwide and benefit performances have raised millions for anti-violence causes. Ensler, 53, has now set her sights on the issue of terror. She addresses the subject in "The Treatment," a play which recently opened in New York City, and in her first book, "Insecure at Last," a political memoir, which will be released next week. TIME's Carolina A. Miranda spoke with her about our security-conscious age, Hillary Clinton...
Author and playwright William A. Strauss ’69 said yesterday that “Yale’s announcement confirms that you can pay reasonable compensation to a fund-manager and get outstanding performance.” Strauss and several fellow alums from the Class of ’69 have urged the University to use its endowment largesse to freeze tuition, eliminate undergraduate borrowing, and provide debt relief to recent grads in modestly-paying jobs...
...actress Mary Astor was involved in a messy divorce case, with her husband publishing parts of her diary that described bedroom details of her affair with playwright and director George S. Kaufman. (She had breathlessly described Kaufman's "incredible powers of recuperation" - back then, even sex scandals had a touch of literary elegance.) Sam Goldwyn, who had his own studio, stood by Astor and allowed her to return to the film she had been making, the immortal Dodsworth. Her career continued for another quarter century, though she now played women with a darker allure, like Bogart's femme fatale...
...Arthur Miller had put the point smartly in the late 60s: "After all the legal, moral and psychological arguments are done," the playwright wrote, "the fact remains that a man is going to prison for publishing and advertising stuff a few years ago that today would hardly raise an eyebrow in your dentist's office. This is the folly, the menace of all censorship - it lays down rules for all time which are ludicrous a short time later...