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Gwen Ifill's book about the rising generation of African-American politicians caused a mini-tempest even before the presses rolled. Critics questioned whether the PBS journalist chosen to moderate the vice-presidential debate could do so impartially, given the book's theme. In her introduction, she dismisses charges that The Breakthrough is a "piece of pro-Obama puffery"--although it might have been better to use a photo on the back cover different from one of Ifill looking adoringly at Obama during an interview. Ifill has interviewed virtually every African-American politician of note, tracking a generational shift away...
...hurling books at the walls. Now she was tearing the tapestries down and casting them to the floor. Now she was smashing Roxanna’s mirror. She whirled and raged, blind, mad, adrift in the tempest of her own making...
...careful selection Garber widens her potential audience to those who may have had little Shakespeare exposure (including, as Garber informs us in the introduction, George W. Bush). Each chapter (and, in turn, each play examined) concentrates on a specific issue of modernity. For “The Tempest,” it is “the Conundrum of Man;” for “Romeo and Juliet,” “The Untimeliness of Youth;” for “Coriolanus,” “The Estrangement of Self...
...output by 1.5 million barrels a day in an attempt to halt the slide in oil prices. The price of oil has dropped from $147 a barrel in July, to just $64 Friday. Lower oil prices have been one of the few positive changes in the financial and economic tempest...
When Catrin M. Lloyd-Bollard ’08 auditioned for her first play the summer before high school, a local production of “The Tempest,” it may have been difficult to divine where her nascent ambitions would bring her. “I auditioned and I really screwed up my audition,” she says. “I completely blanked on the monologue, but they forgave me, I suppose, and decided to give me a chance.” Last-minute cast shuffling left her with a turn as King Alonso...