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...Opus Dei is a highly controversial movement in Catholicism...
...cancellation is America's loss and a cultural embarrassment in the eyes of the Europeans and Japanese, who had budgeted money to ship their productions to the U.S. For the CIVIL warS is a magnum opus that outdoes in richness and complexity even Wilson's previous essays in theatrical gigantism, such as The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin (1973) and his best-known work, Einstein on the Beach (1976). Spare and elliptical, yet also bril liantly colorful and chillingly perceptive, the CIVIL warS is a radical concatenation of allusions whose theme is destruction and death but whose...
...says "nine months? Wait a minute. Gary Trudeau?...Mum's the word." Nor does Breathed hold back from poking fun at himself. In one of the funniest cartoons in the book, the bewildered young Yaz Fistachio complains that there is no weirder name in the world than her own. Opus, the lethargic penguin, counters "what about Berkeley Breathed...
...letter he had written Katharine in 1929 just before his 30th birthday, he said that he wanted to be more than a successful New Yorker writer. Now, four years later, still hoping to produce a major work, he had in mind something he referred to as his 'magnum opus.' And in 1934 he seems to have made at least one concerted attempt to get it under way. In mid-January 1934 he went to Camden, S.C., to the same resort hotel he had been taken to by his father in 1911. He went there 'to work...
...Unlike Norman and Shepard, student play-wrights at Harvard, in the past, have had few opportunities to see their scripts put on the stage. Well, if you happen to be someone who keeps reams of original works in your desk, or even if you have only written one dramatic opus, you can now submit it for a new project in which undergraduate writers will be able to see other students direct and act in their plays...