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...having a snub nose and broad mouth. But this is hardly conclusive, Lefkowitz contends, since the Greeks also portrayed the Scythians of Russia as having these supposedly Negroid features. Moreover, if Socrates had been part African, that fact would surely have been satirized by his critics, like the comic playwright Aristophanes...
...quote I look to for inspiration whenever I get a little bit down is from [playwright and Czech Republic president] Vaclav Havel," Stephanopoulos said. "Politics can't just be the art of the possible, but also the art of the impossible: changing people's lives for the better...
DIED. CHARLES GORDONE, 70, playwright; of cancer; in College Station, Texas. Gordone became the first African-American playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize with the 1969 Broadway bow of No Place to Be Somebody. A portrait of schemers, dreamers and losers in a grungy Greenwich Village bar, it owed as much to the saloon drama of O'Neill and Saroyan as it did to the black theater renaissance of the sixties...
...side of truth, and shouldn't hold any longstanding bitterness during the hearings the commission will hold. He's also not afraid of controversy, even if that includes going against Mandela himself. For example, Tutu was critical of Mandela's handling of the situation in Nigeria, when the playwright and other dissidents were hanged. He thought Mandela should have been much more forceful. Whites, too, are generally respectful of Tutu, which makes his selection very defensible." The 17-member Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which includes whites and South Africans across the political spectrum, will gather evidence of abuses...
...playwright who attended the show even enjoyed the performance of his life story. I am disappointed that in a play about a struggle to find forgiveness, a pointed and very painful charge of hatred was made against me. How are we to find forgiveness for all the wrongs done against our fellow brothers and sisters if we cannot listen and laugh and see life through another's eyes? It is a sensitive world we live in, so do not seek to find injustice and hatred where none exists because you may make enemies where only friends existed. Bridger E. McGaw...