Word: willfullness
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The problem with this story is not only that it happens in the U.S. as well--such willful distortions are not confined, as we like to believe, to textbooks in rural Mississippi--but also that it has become apparent only because the Japanese government has been suing textbook writers to...
The cast members, from Dublin's Abbey Theater, are amazingly fresh and spontaneous in roles that half of them have been playing since April 1990, when the play premiered in Ireland. Yet the performances also have the delicacy and nuance that comes from long consideration. They suggest all the tacit...
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter in a fashionable shade for the '90s. The lovely and willful heroine, Hester Prynne, who was once doomed to wear A for adultery, finds happiness and fulfillment with one of Boston's first sex therapists. Her performance proves to be so outstanding that she is...
The second half of this play is more structured. Woolf speaks mainly on the theme of Women and Fiction. Why are there so many strong and willful women in the fiction of ages past (Lady Macbeth, Anna Karenina and Desdemona among them) and so few in real life? What happened...
She kept her sons sheltered from politics when they were young, and they came of age as political naifs. But in the 1970s, as she centralized power in the Congress and made over the party in her own image, the willful Sanjay was groomed as her logical successor. Wielding power...