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...recent piece in the conservative magazine "Insight" proclaimed this the year of the crimebusters. District Attorneys in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia have all provided newspapers with headlines as they bring in one successful indictment after another. In the process, political corruption and organized crime have been death severe blows...
...bubbly Joy Valderrama, 55, whom he married when he was a mere 96. In Florida, they are usually on the golf course or by a pool during the day and watch television at night. One of his favorite programs is The Newlywed Game, which, he says, gives him an insight into the lives of working-class Americans. He has a fond spot for his fruit trees -- grapefruit, orange and papaya -- and talks to them the way he might like to talk to his actors. "Goddam you!" he says. "Deliver...
...metaphor. It is not enough for an artist to be right-minded on even the most potent political issues of his day. To earn a lasting place in literature, to rank with Ibsen or Shaw or Brecht, he must also demonstrate subtlety of craft, power of language and insight into character -- and probably must reach beyond his immediate context into other realms of the real world or imagination. Significantly, after the autobiographical catharsis of 'Master Harold' . . . and the Boys (1982), which reflected his formative bond as a white youth with a black father figure, Fugard has moved into brave...
Graham said that her experience at Harvard has given her insight into the interests of the University, and she says she will fight for the needs of the community because of Harvard's clear intention to "suck up everything around them...
...fraught with several millenniums of encrusted expectations. For the most part, Golding is content to let the symbolic dimensions of his tale remain implicit. "What a world a ship is! A universe!" Talbot exclaims at one point, but the energy he might have devoted to metaphysical speculations on this insight pour instead into keeping himself upright on the heaving decks and avoiding...