Word: screed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agree that this is not an inconceivable scenario.) Let's further suppose that I already knew some things about Harvard--say, that this University still has money invested in South Africa, while Duke divested back in 1986. Would I be justified in sending to the Duke Chronicle a screed on what an intolerable place Harvard...
...Wasserstein is far too deft a satirist, and far too gentle a person, to compose a screed. Instead, with subtlety and humor in The Heidi Chronicles, she has written a memorable elegy for her own lost generation. Heidi tells the story of a slightly introverted art historian, a fellow traveler in the women's movement, who clings to her values long after her more committed friends switch allegiance from communes to consuming. At the pivotal moment in the play's second act, Heidi (played by Joan Allen) stands behind a lectern on a bare stage, giving a luncheon speech...
...young to be a founding beatnik and, ten years later, a little too bald to be a convincing hippie, he became "the Chief" to a tribe of hallucinating nomads. This stage of Kesey's life was described in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe's rollicking screed about a cross-country tour that Kesey and his overstimulated Merry Pranksters took in a vintage school bus with a psychedelic paint...
...adenoids are missing, but the tone is unmistakable ("Those halcyon days of yore are gone for good"). Through the booming names and assertions comes the clarion bleat of Howard Cosell blowing his own horn. In this $ autobiographical screed, the Mouth That Roared shows that in a 32-year career, no triumph was ever forgotten or insult overlooked. In the early 1980s, his Monday Night Football colleagues made the mistake of being "full of themselves, obviously convinced they could handle the telecasts as well without me." The broadcaster turned viewer chortled as the audience dwindled: "I barely made it through...
...opening line was "Do you know who I am?" Well, of course, everyone did. At Cambridge University, Prince Edward was making his British stage debut in an undergraduate production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, a political screed based on the 17th century witch trials in Salem, Mass. Though Edward, 19, was playing sexagenarian Deputy Governor Danforth, Director Nicholas Walmsley found that the supporting role fitted the princely thespian "like a glove." Edward was more sanguine when asked about his performance. "That's not for me to judge," he said. "Life...