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Like Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, August didn't just write a great play, he has written volumes of good, better and best plays. Fences was the third in his series about blacks in each decade of the 20th century. But August's plays transcend race. When Carole Shorenstein Hays, who produced Fences, saw the play for the first time, she said she was watching a "universal play, and when push comes to shove, families are alike...
...Dunaway), political activist (he campaigned against "NATO machismo" in Kosovo), actor and, of course, playwright - that has touched so many? His plays are not as immediately funny as Alan Ayckbourn's, and you cannot easily sympathize with his invariably damaged, degraded characters as you can with those of, say, Arthur Miller. Pinter is more difficult, in every sense, than his contemporaries, and his rooms are battlegrounds...
...University also presented a doctorate in music to composer Leon Kirchner, and doctorate in law to philosopher Jürgen Habermas, economist Alice M. Rivlin, commencement speaker Rubin, historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ’38 and former Harvard Fellow Richard A. Smith...
...This time they have a spin-off from "Family" called "Maude," and already it ranks as one of the fall's top prospects. Maude is Edith Bunker's cousin who lives somewhere in upstate New York. As played by the formidable (5 ft. 9 in.), husky-contral-toed Beatrice Arthur, she may do for liberal suburban matrons what Archie has done for urban hardhats...
Watchdogs barked instantly. "There are so many ways of indirectly compensating analysts for bringing in deals that this is a toothless gesture," says Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Indeed, the guidelines won't change much--and thus threaten to dupe the next generation of investors, led to believe that analysts will look out for them...