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AMERICAN FREEDOM AGENDA 910 SEVENTEENTH STREET, NW SUITE 800 WASHINGTON, DC 20006 WWW.AMERICANFREEDOMAGENDA.ORG...
...only given one tour before—to our foster parents on junior foster parents weekend—our competitors’ shortcomings are so obvious that we can’t help but intervene. These idiots think that just because they’re taking folks around a seventeenth century institution,- it’s fine to use tour technology of yesteryear. We have one question for these “entrepreneurs”: where are the SEGWAYS? And why bother speaking over the crowd when you can just relay points of interest via Bluetooth headsets...
...Born in 1961, Gurr learned his craft at Melbourne Theatre Company from Ray Lawler, creator of Australia's most celebrated drama, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. For those familiar with Gurr's plays-from the aids-era's DesireLines through to Crazy Brave, Sex Diary of an Infidel, Jerusalem and his recent Something to Declare, about refugees-his memoir is an opportunity to understand how those plays came about. His creative ideal: Never invent, only reveal. He brings a reader close enough to taste the rumble between what he describes as "the unconscious impulse and the internal editor." "Whenever...
...most of Harvard’s history, the answer has been a resounding yes. The early seventeenth century College required tutors—for all practical purposes the equivalent of today’s professors—“to be with their pupils almost every hour of the day, and sleep in the same chamber with some of them at night,” wrote Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard’s pre-eminent historian. In many cases, student and tutor remained life-long friends...
DIED. Maureen Daly, 85, author of the breathy, happy 1942 teen novel Seventeenth Summer, who is credited with launching the genre of modern young-adult literature; in Palm Desert, Calif. The best-selling book, which Daly wrote when she was a teenager, detailed a romance between two high schoolers in a Midwestern lakeside village. Of its origins, she said, "I was so wildly happy about love and life at a particular time of my existence, I wanted to get all that fleeting excitement down on paper before it passed or I forgot the true feelings...