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Buried in the flyer's text was the claim that tomorrow's conference is "timed to coincide with the trial of Paul Hill," the man who gunned down an abortion doctor and his escort in Florida last July...
...from the liberal disdain for hieracrchy. Classical Mongolian verse simply cannot be any better or worse than Milton, the true multiculti declares. I'll grant the fundamental equality of all the world's literature when the deans of leading medical schools across America supply their students with Rwandan anatomy text-books on the grounds that they're all the same anyhow...
...that respect, the Law School's production fall short of the text. For director Dana Kirchman presents Dancing at Lughnasa as a sort of Irish Decline and Fall: a tragicomic descent from the sublime to the ridiculous. But Friel's play follows no such forced structure. The tragedy and the comedy are both equally present and equally real from the beginning. Indeed, what is disturbing about Dancing at Lughnasa is not the depressing tale of the Mundys' decline; rather it is the slapdash casserole of elation and despair that makes up their everday lives...
Think about it. Shakespeare was great, but to really appreciate him you need to study the text as well as see the performance. In order to enjoy "Star Wars" fully, since no one has published a movie script, you have to read the NPR Star Wars Radio Dramatization, the next closest thing. It's another quality installment in the great wealth of "Star Wars" paraphernalia. It doesn't wholly satisfy a Jedi craving--I find it more fun to read about Han and Lein's kids (twins, of course), but until Lucas directs the Clone Wars, this will help keep...
...Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, Professor of English and Comparative Literature Barbara Johnson and Assistant Professor of English and of History and literature Meredith McGill--demonstrated how literary studies should and must draw on a variety of disciplines which might at first appear to be unrelated to the text being analyzed...