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...intellectual sermon on the theater, though it contains many epigrams that any actor, established or aspiring, should cut out and tape to his mirror. Instead, the book combines both these elements, forming a recitation of memories interspersed with philosophy. It reads like a dreamy monologue, as if the reader and Miss Seldes went home together after her evening performance, and she began to describe her career. The soliloquy soon disregards the rules of sequential narration, as if the speaker began to interrupt herself, linking events by theme rather than by time, injecting the insights of the present into the past...
...quiet joy of her childhood: "I grew up in a home without quarrels or cruetly, where time and thoughts and friends were shared." As the book continues, however, biographical details dwindle into scattered references to a husband and daughter. Aside from her teaching drama at the Julliard School, the reader gains few insights into the offstage Seldes. Indeed, one begins to suspect that no such creature exists, so closely does The Bright Lights live up to its subtitle, "A Theatrical Life." Yet the book retains the tone of an intimate confession, because it deals with the personal side of being...
...insurance benefit of a worker who died during the strike (they split it fifty-fifty, then settled their other differences as well). Herb Brown, the Atlantic City Press's Mr. Action, called in the city's most respected roofer to examine a shoddy roof job that a reader complained about, and found himself in the middle of a family squabble. The job had been done by the roofer's nephew. "You can quote me on this," the elder man told Brown, who did just that. "The kid is incompetent. He doesn't know what...
...facilities in the 1960s, but as soon as Hines was indicted in June, racial tension began rising. Demonstrators from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference appeared in front of the city hall and put up tents on the grass. Hines' arrest was "a setup," said the Rev. R.B. Cotton-reader, a leader of the S.C.L.C. "Decatur was being pressed for an arrest and conviction for those rapes." Then came the Ku Klux Klan, which set up its own tents. On Aug. 14 it burned a cross before the civic center...
...combing a broad range of styles. The influence of Arthur Rackham is clearly evident; so are touches as wide-ranging as Hieronymus Bosch, the Pre-Raphaelites and Maxfield Parrish. The result is a seductive ring of words and bright pictures that encircles mystery and merriment and, eventually, the reader...