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![]() ![]() ![]() Here is Steinbeck’s dramatic adaptation of his novel-as-play, which received the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play in 1937-1938 and has featured a number of actors who have played the iconic roles of George and Lennie on stage and film, including James Earl Jones, John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden, this classic story of an unlikely pair, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression who grasp for their American Dream, profoundly touches readers and audiences alike. ![]() Celebrating its 75th anniversary, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men remains one of America's most widely read and beloved novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the concluding chapter he discusses the Atlanta Project, which he heads with the former First Lady, a project aimed at improving the quality of life in the inner cities. ![]() Noting that the race issue has returned to American politics, Carter characterizes the U.S. A suspenseful narrative about a neophyte's harsh introduction to regional politics, the story of Carter's local victory also illuminates the end of the legalized system of white supremacy, rural domination of government and deprivation of civil rights for blacks in the South. Carter hired a lawyer and, aided by a journalist's expose, forced a recount to come up a winner. Carters WHITE HOUSE DIARY pulls back the curtain on the day-to-day activities of the President in a way that I have not seen in other presidential memoirs. ![]() ![]() On Election Day Carter watched helplessly as Joe Hurst, a supporter of his opponent in the race for state senator, stole the election with blatant ballot-stuffing. The year was 1962, and the ``one man, one vote'' ruling had just been handed down by the Supreme Court. In this engrossing account of his first campaign for public office, the former President describes himself as a naive 38-year-old farmer and small-businessman who got an education in the rough-and-tumble of Georgia politics. Carter writes in his diary: I chose to focus my campaign on three themes: truthfulness, management competence, and distance from the unattractive aspects of Washington politics. ![]() ![]() ![]() They were members of the so called “Paiforce” (the Persia and Iraq Force), tens of thousands of whom (soldiers, military officers, bureaucrats, cooks, police, mapmakers, surveyors, you name it) were relocated to a sprawling bureaucratic occupation of Iraq. Raghu Karnad’s astonishing history, Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War, casts the Indians like my grandfather who served the British Empire in Iraq during World War II in a far more prestigious role. Besides, my grandfather’s much longer-lived reality-he returned to his wife and children, worked, retired, and then died in ripe old age, all without saying much about Baghdad-made his actual stint there seem not just unglamorous but uninteresting. This anomaly-to the best of my knowledge, he never left South India for the rest of his life-had awakened little wonder in me, perhaps because my father’s family is not especially communicative. ![]() ![]() For some years during the Second World War, my paternal grandfather, a mid-level employee of the Survey of India, worked in Baghdad. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. 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I can see him winning another title next season, just given the complete nature of his current form and Mercedes' relentless pursuit of winning. What's more, he has the energy and fitness to continue for another five years at least. ![]() Unless he makes a disastrous career choice for 2021 and beyond, he has the talent to rewrite the history books. Prediction time: Will Lewis Hamilton retire from F1 as statistically the greatest world champion in history (i.e., hold eight or more world championships)? Our regular writers - Laurence Edmondson, Nate Saunders, Maurice Hamilton and Kate Walker - discuss the main talking points from the U.S. ![]() ![]() Lewis Hamilton became a six-time world champion in Austin, Texas, but that wasn't the only news story doing the rounds at the Circuit of the Americas. Will Hamilton break Schumacher's records? You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, door-knocking is viewed with suspicion, and tragically, occasionally met with violence. Now, I treasure the openness, curiosity, and sincerity of both those visitors and my dad. ![]() The visit lasted close to an hour, and soon became a regular occurrence anytime Jehovah’s Witnesses knocked. As a child, I would roll my eyes at the intrusions. They shared their faith then my dad shared his, Islam. My dad opened the door wide, smiled, and welcomed them into the living room, offering them cups of tea. I peeked out the window to find a pair of suit-clad Jehovah’s Witnesses, and promptly retreated – from what I’d heard, most people avoided them. Ding-dong! It was the mid-’90s, in my childhood home in rural central New York, where we didn’t frequently get visitors. ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s also written 13 chapter books, including the Bink & Gollie series with Alison McGhee, another about toast-loving pig Mercy Watson, and Tales From Deckawoo Drive. “The Beatryce Prophecy” aimed at middle-grade readers, is her 10th novel. Those characters, who live in medieval times, include a girl who breaks the law by knowing how to read, a timid monk, and a loyal but fierce goat, one of DiCamllo’s most endearing characters.ĭiCamillo, who is always fun to talk with, is one of the nation’s most popular children’s writers (although she insists her books are for all ages) with a total of 37 million copies in print worldwide. It’s about getting out of my own way and following these characters I care about.” “How those three words led to ‘The Beatryce Prophecy,’ I have no idea,” DiCamillo said with a laugh during a phone conversation from her Minneapolis home. Kate DiCamillo had only three words in her mind when she began her luminous new novel - monk, moon and goat. ![]() The prophecy states that this child will be a girl. “It is written in the Chronicles of Sorrowing ![]() ![]() ![]() This observation has not only re-ignited my appreciation for live audiences, but transformed how I’m presenting, engaging and interacting with audiences. There’s something truly special about the return of real-life human connection and while I’m grateful for the technologies that have enabled us to remain connected throughout 20, nothing beats the power and energy of humans in a room, sharing, connecting and collaborating. ![]() To be able to make plans, set goals and look to the horizon with a sense of certainty. It feels amazing to be future focused again. And, most excitingly for me, events and conferences are back. With life returning to normal and the worst of the pandemic essentially behind us, there is a noticeable sense of hope and optimism in places that it’s been missing from for over 24 months. ‘The winter of our discontent’ actually means that our unhappy times are in the past.Īnd after the uncertainty and challenges of the past two years, this resonated deeply with me. ![]() (Although, the artic temperatures in Sydney and Melbourne this week would have challenged anyone’s sense of joy). It doesn’t mean that it’s a season of sadness or displeasure. It got me thinking about what ‘the winter of our discontent’ actually means. Interestingly, I came across a copy of the book on Wednesday. The title comes from the first two lines of William Shakespeare ‘s Richard III : “Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun of York”. The Winter of our Discontent was prolific author John Steinbeck’s last novel, published in 1961. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her findings show that we are more and more dependent on technological advancements, in particular, robotics, to solve some of our human problems such as loneliness, friendship, caring for each other, and ultimately, to love and be loved. The word ‘humans’ has to be emphasized because the first half of her book details her research on The Robotic Movement. Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT, the founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, and a licensed clinical psychologist.įor thirty years, Turkle has been studying the social-psychological aspect of how technology has been changing us humans. ![]() |