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...could play drama or comedy on the screen, but it was on the stage that he made his legend. Sir (Arthur) John Gielgud delivered storied portrayals of Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Richard II, and triumphed as a director as well. He was mentor, friend and equal to his fellow knight, Sir Alec Guinness...
...Museum of Natural History is a 21st century update of an 18th century dream. Architect James Stewart Polshek's simple design, a metal sphere set in a mostly glass cube, is a homage to the unbuilt ball that Etienne-Louis Boullee conceived in 1784 as a memorial to Sir Isaac Newton. It tells of the grandeur of the universe itself, speaking in the language of both classic modernism and very high tech...
...built on foundations that I reject. For me the holiday will always be tied to questioning, to the evaluation of evidence, both of Santa and God, but more generally the physical world. Luckily, a figure emblematic of just this sort of material exploration has a convenient date of birth. Sir Isaac Newton was born on December...
...DIED. SIR MALCOLM BRADBURY, 68, British biographer, novelist, critic, teacher and champion of young writers; after a long illness; in Norwich, England. In 1970, with Angus Wilson, Bradbury founded England's first creative-writing program at the University of East Anglia--to the consternation of British academics, who insisted writing could not be taught. Graduates of the program included future Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro...
Though it's clear that Kaufman researched Wilde, for we are continually provided with sources for the dialogues, diary entries and speeches, some of the evidence, especially in the courtroom, tends to drag. It is difficult to tell if Sir Edward Clark (Seth Fenton '01) purposly reads each piece of evidence with as little emotion or sense of sentence flow as possible so that Wilde's exchanges sound juvenile or if Clark is merely reading the evidence unintelligibly...