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The title page declares: Seneca’s Oedipus Adapted by Ted Hughes Introduction by Peter Brook Illustrated by Reginald Pollack Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York 1972 The next page notes: Note: Seneca’s Oedipus is the sole property of the author and is fully protected by copyright. … All rights, including professional, amateur, stock, radio … Continue reading Orwellian authorship
When free video was only three broadcast television channels, CBS Evening News anchorman Walter Cronkite was proclaimed the most trusted man in America. … Read the post Jack and Jill on Walter Cronkite
Among the cocky young men in the new ruler’s entourage, one wears a t-shirt declaring, “business is good.” The back of his t-shirt adds, “my business is killing.” Such a combination of power, inhumane interests, and brutality, writ large, animates Shakespeare’s King Lear. For a production with the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Director Robert Falls has … Continue reading King Lear’s great falls: Robert Falls directs at Shakespeare Theatre
In its first sentence, an Act of June 19, 1934 established the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC): For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, without discrimination on the basis of … Continue reading momentous day in communications history
With an insightful display of different viewpoints, the Smithsonian’s exhibition, Jamestown, Québec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings, explores settlement and unsettlement. An opening theme of the exhibition is “unsettling the continent.” Text on a large sign-barrier at the beginning of the exhibition presents in three languages this one text: Societies of indigenous peoples inhabited … Continue reading unsettling North America at the Smithsonian