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...character-building advantages of defeat. I've developed enough character to last the rest of my life, with some left over to give to any character-challenged New York fans out there. A Massachusetts girl said it best: "Success is counted sweetest/ By those who ne'er succeed." Emily Dickinson would have been a Red Sox fan. John B. Holway Springfield...
...movie released in theaters because it was deemed too rough for the small screen) was The Killers in 1964. It's a bit of a cheap thrill to watch Reagan play a crime heavy and do his professional best in a scene where he has to slap Angie Dickinson. The Killers, violent and cynical, was a curious coda to Reagan's career. But, in a way, he had only been moonlighting as a movie actor ever since his Army days. He was moving into politics, graduating from Hollywood in the '40s to Sacramento in the '60s to Washington...
...work toward a goal you need encouragement at virtually every stage. One strategy for women has been to find a mentor who brings them along. Emily Dickinson, perhaps the most isolated literary genius ever to write, actually was rather aggressive about getting an eminent literary figure to assume this role. Eleanor Roosevelt was lucky enough to have a teacher who took an active role in fostering her intellectual and emotional growth. Many women in business have found bosses who play this role...
...brain is wider than the sky," wrote Emily Dickinson. Indeed, this 3-lb. blob can generate a need so intense that all the world has sung of it. And to make our lives even more complex, romantic passion is intricately enmeshed with two other basic mating drives, the sex drive and the urge to build a deep attachment to a romantic partner. Ah, the web of love. How these forces feed the flame of life...
...family fled Cuba in 1970 for Miami, where Cruz spent more time indoors--shelving books at the library and discovering the poetry of Emily Dickinson, along with the work of Latin-American masters like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He acknowledges feeling a responsibility to give theatrical voice to the Latin-American experience in a country where such voices are not often widely heard. But he hopes that plays like Anna in the Tropics will speak to a broader audience. "It deals with large issues, lost traditions, the importance of art--and it's a classic love story...