Word: woolf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hardly seemed cut out to be a workingman's revolutionary. A Cambridge University don with a flair for making money, a graduate of England's exclusive Eton prep school, a collector of modern art, the darling of Virginia Woolf and her intellectually avant-garde Bloomsbury Group, the chairman of a life-insurance company, later a director of the Bank of England, married to a ballerina, John Maynard Keynes--tall, charming and self-confident--nonetheless transformed the dismal science into a revolutionary engine of social progress...
...there is another theme to Powell's work, it is an unfailing fascination with characters who live on gender's edges. Apart from the sexual rebels she dressed in her two recent films and in Orlando (based on the Virginia Woolf novel about a heroine who switches sexes back and forth), Powell also designed costumes for Neil Jordan's The Crying Game. "I'm attracted to projects that involve taking risks of some kind," Powell says, "and ones that might upset some people...
Many of the classes offered within the English department, such as English 90s: "Virginia Woolf," are about a specific author, while others, such as English 179k: "American Autobiography," deal with specific areas...
When I think of Edward Albee, I think of the psychological explorations of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. The first act of his last play, The Seascape, fulfills that generalization remarkably well. It opens with a married couple bickering. Charlie (John Beard) and Nancy (Nicole Charbonneau), just like the pair in Woolf--they are past middle age and frustrated by the stagnancy into which their lives have fallen. Nancy is devastated by it and Charlie is burdened by her insistence that he empathize with her misery. Soon another couple arrives whose own personal issues mirror and illuminate those...
...know it means that New York is the greatest of all cities, and we are superior in all ways--culturally and athletically," said proud New Yorker Spencer W. Woolf `02. "And we're also smarter and better. It just proves a well-known fact...