Word: writer
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...mother who was a junkie, a sister who was a prostitute and a father who had long ago abandoned the family. "I gave her a writing assignment, and she was brilliant," says Smolin. "She still had trouble, but she got into college and now she wants to be a writer." What keeps many teachers going is the conviction that somewhere out there, there are more victory students waiting to be discovered...
Doctor is a collection of 10 short vignettes all performed by the same five-member cast. Each scene stands on its own, but the play is held together to some extent by a series of introductions by a character known as The Writer (Josh Frost). The Writer is composing each of the segments of the play, and he stops throughout to explain his writing and himself to the audience. As might be expected, The Writer represents Simon himself. But Simon does a good job of keeping himself in the background of the play, and Doctor benefits greatly from Simon...
RECKLESS. Writer Craig Lucas and director Norman Rene (Three Postcards) take a hilarious and moving off-Broadway journey through one woman's bad dream, fantasy or, maybe, truly terrible life...
Cage has developed his theories of chance and randomness over a long spate of work with music. After leaving Pomona College as a sophomore, Cage went to Europe intending to become a writer. Instead, he studied modern music and art and returned to the United States in the mid-1930s to pursue two years of study with composer Arnold Shoenberg. It was after this stint in New York and with a new conviction that he had no ear for harmony that Cage began to usher in a new era of music...
...only have we not progressed a great deal...--both statistically and attitudinally--but I fear we have moved backward...in a number of areas" said the affirmative action report. The writer of the report criticized the University for its low number of tenured Black professors (1.4 percent) and female professors (3 percent...