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THE BLOOD KNOT. Playwright Atholl Fugard traps a black and white pair of half brothers in a tin shack in South Africa, which proves to be a no-exit hell for a conflict that is bruisingly bitter, ruefully humorous, and much more than skin deep.
THE BLOOD KNOT. Playwright Atholl Fugard traps a black and white pair of half brothers in a tin shack in South Africa, which proves to be a no-exit hell for a conflict that is bruisingly bitter, ruefully humorous, and much more than skin deep.
Winning a Nobel Prize is a risky business. People are always laying bear traps and carpet tacks in your path, and there is no doubt that it takes a physical as well as mental giant to collect his rightful prize. The Prize is to be commended for laying bare this...
One was the civil rights bill. Hearings on the Administration-sponsored measure started in the House Rules Committee, whose canny old chairman, Virginia Democrat Howard Smith, 80, opposes the bill in its entirety. Peering owlishly above the top of his spectacles, "Judge" Smith labeled the bill "as full of booby...
The professor who has questioned his "simple positivist faith" in research carried on ad Infinitum can evade the problem by devoting himself to teaching--in which case he traps himself in repetition and self-dramatization, becoming a "quaint figure" beloved of undergraduates, "the legendary hero of local folk-lore."