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...Shaffer was fascinated by the ability of language to reveal, conceal and distort the workings of a person's mind and desires. In Sleuth he created a Chinese-box plot that on the surface was a very theatrical mystery, but at heart was a parable of sexual envy and English class hatred. Again, right up Pinter's dark alley...
...helm this time is Kenneth Branagh, the actor-director who in his youth was seen as the hope of English-speaking theater - "the new Olivier," critics said - and who had one-upped Olivier by directing and starring in an acclaimed film of Shakespeare's Henry V while still in his 20s. The new script for Sleuth is by Harold Pinter, the most demanding and honored playwright of the past half-century. Pinter, after all, did win the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature; and at 77, this imperious Brit is surely beyond the worry of writing scripts for 14-year...
Creativity, Capecchi once said, comes from "the abrasive juxtaposition" of life experiences. His old life and new one certainly rubbed each other raw. Some teachers wrote off the feral boy who had never set foot in a school and spoke no English; but others gave him paints and told him to make murals to communicate. One day he was beating up the other third-graders, since that was what he knew how to do. And soon he was beating up older kids on behalf of his peers. "That gave me a position," he says, "some social standing...
...academic challenges in class and explore new ideas. As a writer, she learned to express herself clearly and directly, skillful in putting criticism to good use. Interested in ideas for their own sake, she was able to excel in all areas—math, science, languages, history, and English...
...Sylvia Mendenhall is Teacher Emerita at Concord Academy. She was President Faust’s English teacher and advisor in junior year at that institution...