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...would not be the first time that a monument to war dead were composed of words. The most beautiful memorial ever imagined was probably the Gettysburg Address, whose power partly derived from a feeling of proximity to those killed in the war from which Memorial Day originated. This conscious desire to be closer to the dead started showing up in more concrete structures with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, which invites us to run our fingertips over the names of our countrymen, in effect to touch the dead. The architect, Maya Lin, said that the wall gives off reflections...
...added, “But at a certain point you say to yourself, Good God, if it quacks like a duck and it walks like a duck, there’s a very good chance that it is a duck, and so there could be actually some unconscious or conscious elements at work here, and I would leave that up to the soul of Summers himself.” At another point he said, “His attack on me was the wrong person, the wrong professor and the wrong Negro.” While he never outright called...
...have no plans to make any changes,” says Lee Stetson, dean of admissions at the University of Pennsylvania. “If the pressure is so great that a student cannot make a conscious decision, that student should not apply early...
DIED. REGINALD ROSE, 81, socially conscious Emmy-winning TV writer whose courtroom drama, 12 Angry Men, captivated TV viewers in 1954 and was later adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Henry Fonda; in Norwich, Conn...
Judevine is a play about the forgotten that succeeds in making you pay attention to them by never demanding that you do so. Eschewing didactic preaching and manipulative trickery, it just tells their stories. A more self-conscious and sermonizing play could not elicit the sort of warm glow that Judevine does when in the final scene Antonine asks, “What we do widdout each other...