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...populist heroine put to death for taking seriously pietisms about God, King and country expounded by an elite that cares only about itself. The other is a metaphysical debate over whether this world has any place for the uncompromising rectitude of a saint. The shrewdness of Shaw's text -- and of Maryann Plunkett's sturdy Broadway performance -- is that both struggles are just as compelling whether the audience sees Joan as divinely inspired or as deeply deranged. The surrounding production by Tony Randall's National Actors | Theater is coarse, often verging on camp. But the play is all too timely...
...About faces" contains samples of the italic, roman and handwriting-based types although the non-chronological arrangement of the pieces somewhat obscures the history. A 1526 book on display contains text set in a font Ludovico degli Arrighi designed after his own handwriting, and the French designer Robert Granjon used a hand-based script-complete with overstated ascenders and descenders and exggerated capital-in a 1558 publication...
Consequently, Adobe sells many copies of Robert Slimbach's recent "Minion" (the face in which this text is set), a neo-classical type to the mass market, but alternative type foundries such as Emigre and fontshop International survive as well. Experimental typographers, having given up on the traditional, roman letterform, base new on photographs and Dizzy Gillespie's handwriting. The 1980s and '90s have produced a dazzling number of new types...
...Profundis" (1991), which Rzewski performed next, is a setting of eight paragraphs from a letter written in prison by Oscar Wilde; the pianist reads aloud and plays simultaneously. The text is an earnest and profound metaphysical meditation which Rzewski subjected to an affected, overinflected reading and interspersed with voiced breathing and noises of laughter and singing that bordered on the maniacal. Rzewski accompanied one passage by slapping himself and drumming his fingers on the closed piano lid, another (about the imperfections of governments) with the squeaking of a toy horn. In these instances the effect was derisive, whatever the intention...
...movement to remove religion from school developed, the tables turned. Private universities such as Harvard, self-consciously following behind the "anti-establishment of religion" banner, have in some cases secularized to the point of becoming anti-God. The quote from my biology text gives a clear example in which instead of simply not preaching about God, some have started preaching against...