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...managerial style during rehearsal. “One thing I am very aware of as an actor is that anything a director can tell an actor doesn’t matter if the actor can’t do it naturally,” he explains. Despite the narrative??s virtuosic leaps across time periods, the troupe of highly experienced actors are encouraged to perform naturally—or, as Kenneth P. Herrera ’03, who plays one of Gene’s cronies, urges during warm-up, “Act freely and without shame...
...only is Gould a master of scientific narrative??editorials on numerous other subjects have also appeared in publications from Time to the Boston Globe. When I ask him about his wife, sculptor Rhonda Shearer, he tells me that she set up a supply depot from her studio near Ground Zero, and he also gives me copies of two editorials that he recently wrote about the September 11 attacks. The op-eds have the same exquisitely lucid style that characterizes most of his writing; Gould dissects a human catastrophe as well as he does a pillar of evolutionary theory...
Nina Baym, a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a women’s literature scholar, called “The Bondwoman’s Narrative?? a “great find...
...India. In England, he can never elude his Indian background, try as he might to shed it. And in Mozambique, he lives the life of a perpetual guest, a longtime stranger whose intimacy with his neighbors is limited by his multiethnic past. The red thread of the narrative??which varies subtly in style and voice, as well as location—is Willie’s inner self, the half a life that remains constant inside, while the outer layer varies to suit its setting and audience...
...describe it she does. Her no-holds-barred exposé is rich in detail and plot. But the book—itself a political narrative??ends at description, failing to provide a true critique of the system by not offering a “solution.” Didion does this intentionally; her goal is to “teach” and to “nag,” not to provide easy answers but to incite critical thought among an apathetic populace. It has the feel of a whistleblower’s account; the reader...