Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first state visitor. The U.S. President welcomed the meeting as an opportunity "to correct some of the long-standing economic problems of our two nations." Instead, under pressure from labor unions to stem illegal immigration, Carter and Congress beefed up border patrols and made employers of illegal aliens subject to fines. The U.S. urged Mexico to crack down on drug smuggling, but then became dismayed when young Americans ended up in Mexican jails...
PURGATORY IS THE overriding subject of Narratives, Earl Kim's new musical adaptation of various excerpts from Samuel Beckett's work. In seven skits Kim effectively captures the essence of Beckett's purgatory-a world founded on the premise of an irreducible absurdity-one in which the realms of the shadow and substance constantly collide,interweave and fall apart. In this world characters are racked by doubt and tormented by a nightmarish past which they cannot escape or hope to understand. Purgatory is not a way-station between heaven and hell in Kim's view, it is the Universe itself...
...journey memorable once again. William Dubin is a successful biographer in his mid-50s. Isolated by choice on nine acres of land in upstate New York, Dubin begins a new book, mindful of the vicarious nature of his craft: "One writes lives he can't live." The subject in this case is D.H. Lawrence, whose yawps about sex and blood consciousness seem designed to unhinge middle-aged intellectuals. Dubin proves no exception and soon takes up with Fanny Bick, nearly 35 years his junior...
...student committees to apply leverage within departments on such decisions. This is a realistic and pragmatic approach to the lack of student participation--within the small unit of most departments, such an organization can make its presence felt and have much more impact than any assembly resolution on the subject...
Much of Strangers concerns itself with Lewis's failure to write anything of merit after winning his Nobel Prize. The writer who loses his ability to write is an agonizing, highly personal subject that has rarely been handled well on stage--probably because it attracts writers who themselves are struggling to write something, and this subject allows them to be miserably self-indulgent and generally unperceptive...