Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Horovitz's plays which contain large autobiographical sections. The most startling, in light of his non-existent Harvard career, is Act I, Scene 5 of a 1971 play entitled "Dr. Hero." The setting: a university board room with an admissions committee meeting in progress. Enter the protagonist, an unloved youth named Hero who will rise to the top using his pushy, arrogant, salesman-like personality. Hero is a college applicant, appearing before the admissions committee to be judged on a ludicrous basis--the ability to name ten Dickens's titles. Hero speaks...
...British writer with a talent for elegant malice. A Song at Twilight may have been as close as Coward came to autobiography-although Latymer bears a resemblance to Somerset Maugham. While Latymer and his German wife-secretary are at a Swiss hotel, an actress whom he loved in his youth and denigrated in his memoirs appears for a sudden reunion. They share caviar and steak. Eventually, the former mistress reveals that she possesses the letters Hugo once wrote to a homosexual lover he had always concealed. The actress accuses Hugo of the sins that Coward may have charged himself with...
...city. I'd like to protect it from self-incrimination, to give the town back the ridiculously transparent pseudonym--Exeter--which it first received from a cousin of mine, a famous writer from that state who never used one word if he knew ten, and claimed in his brash youth to have registered in hotels in the area under names like "Benny Johnson," "Eddie Spenser" or "Al Tennyson." (He also described in one of his books "the most notorious whore-house in the state, located on a corner in my home-town where the public library now stands. I guess...
Whatever may have been the distinction's validity in 1954, when police men (Sgt. Pepper?) stood in the school doorways to bar black children, it is almost meaningless today. To the black youth isolated in the center of the doughnut, what difference does it make whether his position results from law or social fact? As Alexander Bickel writes in The Supreme Court and the Idea of Progress...
What the Wine-Sellers Buy, which opened in Manhattan last week, is essentially a sentimental domestic morality play of wayward youth, a play that is a dramatic refugee from the 1950s. EXcept that here the characters are black and the setting is the Detroit ghetto. The bad influence arrives in the form of Rico, a wonderfully reptilian pimp who means to apprentice Steve to his trade by having the lad peddle Mae in the streets. Will Steve choose the life of vice? Will he break his old mother's heart, not to mention...