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It sounds like one of those Brechtian place names out of Mahaggony, where mysterious and sinful things occur. And its equatorial locale is primitive and threatening. Jungle encroaches almost to the doorsteps of Kourou (pop. 7,000), in French Guiana. Only a few miles offshore lies Devil's Island...
Zorn's life as a university student is equally pathetic. He takes no satisfaction in brilliant academic performances. Imprisoned by his own neurosis, he never touches or approaches anyone. He has a fear of sexuality, a fear of rejection, a fear of love. "I was taught all the common...
Early Christians condemned birthday celebrations as a repugnant heathen custom and kept no record of the anniversary of Christ's birth. As late as 245 A.D., the African church father and philosopher Origen wrote that it was sinful even to contemplate observing Jesus's birthday "as though he were a...
Whatever the price, by whatever name, cocaine is becoming the all-American drug. No longer is it a sinful secret of the moneyed elite, nor merely an elusive glitter of decadence in raffish society circles, as it seemed in decades past. No longer is it primarily an exotic and ballyhooed...
When he wrote The Hostage in 1958. Behan appealed to human kindness to make himself understood. The Hostage pulls off a rare dramatic teat: it's "political" without being heavy-handed, a message play that doesn't succumb to self-righteous moralizing. It takes place in a Dublin brothel where...