Criticism
… downsize the staff. The trusted manager reluctantly complies and is the last one fired. The ubiquitous character … name. Having viewed the BBC version, I can offer that it rivals watching paint dry on my watchability scale. My initial … the lost causes harder than for any other. Yes, you even die for them.” The Candidate : Robert Redford plays a …
Essays
… noticing. This past summer, a prominent nonprofit theatre company launched a campaign asking “Why Are Women’s Voices … No one addresses a group of mixed sex by saying “hey, gals.” If someone begins a joke with “A man walks into a … day it stops, which I well understand may not be before I die. That’s fine with me. But this example illustrates the …
… a Buddhist graveyard by two barefoot snipers who will not die no matter how many mortars we walk their way. They keep … These wraiths sing with their crack and whine, We will die to hold you here while the others slip away toward the mountains. What will you die for? Me hunkering behind a pitted tombstone staring at a …
… man. . . twisted bit of flesh in a black cape.” When Bourne died in the influenza epidemic of 1918, he left a mark on … moral and “contemporaneous.” He believed that the time had come for a transvaluation of values that would confront even … revitalized the Moscow Art Theater. It was produced in 1926 by Stanislavsky, a liberal but no Bolshevik, according to …
Fiction
… just thinking about Calista and iron. Some years ago she commissioned a piece by a young sculptor—an artist whose … that it was the power: the sheer power in those bodies flying past. And I love that about Garry: his unabashed … cannot say I mind it so much. I am grateful for him. And I also don’t mind being left again, to a spanakopita, say, or …
… fog of uncertainty, with all the really important reference points lost in the mists of the immediate future. But the … which they themselves had generated. Modernization had become as inevitable in the United States as it was proving to … run with the slightest chance of success. Names are bandied about—Mr. Wallace, Mr. Byrnes, Justice Douglas—but …