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...have had appalling political consequences. Others, like the work of the fictional bard Ossian and the skull of Piltdown man, have had deep cultural ones. Others still, like the phony mermaids that turned up in the cabinets of Renaissance collectors and the fraudulent photographs of fairies that deceived Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, may not have mattered greatly but retain a certain fascination as souvenirs of human credulity...
Although the donation was made almost a year ago, the department waited for "an auspicious occasion" to publicize it, said Department Chair Arthur M. Jaffe, who holds the professorship in mathematics and theoretical science that Clay endowed...
...strike until a lady of color is offered a professorship on the legal faculty seems to have omitted several considerations: 1. The lady should also be a Muslim (very few on the faculty). 2. She should be a lesbian. 3. She should also know something about law. Arthur J. Morgan...
Traditional radio drama is also getting a wider airing on NPR. The network broadcast Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis' novel of Main Street shenanigans, complete with music, sound effects and a cast of 34 readers, including Ed Asner (as George Babbitt), Richard Dreyfuss, Amy Irving and John Lithgow. Among future projects: Arthur Kopit's play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Momma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad and muckraking novelist Frank Norris' McTeague. Asner, who was paid a mere $2,300 for his work, which stretched over nine months, finds it satisfying nonetheless. Says he: "I grew...
...praise may merely be premature. In just over five years, since his first professionally produced play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, reached Broadway, Wilson has established himself as the richest theatrical voice to emerge in the U.S. since the post-World War II flowering of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. Just as significant, he has transcended the categorization of "black" playwright to demonstrate that his stories, although consistently about black families and communities, speak to the entire U.S. culture...