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These goings-on may be taken as the kind of crazy crime and panachement that Stoppard displayed so well in The Real Inspector Hound. But the playwright also offers a long, rambling monologue by Dotty's rumpled husband, George Moore. Moore is a professor of moral philosophy. In his...
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who has been described as "Washington's other monument," is unique among Americans: daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, widow of House Speaker Nicholas Longworth (who died in 1931), personally acquainted with every President since Benjamin Harrison, indomitable doyenne on the Washington social circuit for decades. The...
When Haider reached the mandatory retirement age of 65 in 1969, Jamieson took over as chairman, moving in 1972 into a huge, sparsely furnished office on the 51st floor of the Exxon Building in mid-Manhattan. Jamieson, who earned $401,666 in salary plus $195,000 in bonus last year...
A lifelong Chicagoan, Greeley, at 45, feels like an outcast from the city's academia and his diocese. Perhaps too melodramatically, given his loyal circle of friends, he sees himself as a "lonely" and "marginal" priest. But he hardly seems forlorn. In warm months, he shuttles in his Volkswagen...
COX'S rationale for his rambling discursive style is compelling, but at the end one finds it has failed him. Personal "testimony" or telling one's story is a crucial and restoring activity that Cox feels has degenerated in our culture. Bearing witness to one's own experience can be...