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When the light of sense goes out
\"Goulash communism\" is Zoltan Torey's phrase. A native of Budapest, he recently wrote Out of Darkness, a memoir that describes in detail the author's adjustment to being blind. An industrial accident in 1951 took away Torey's sight at the age of twenty-one. To compensate for such traumatic loss, he might well have developed what neurologist Oliver Sacks has observed in some patients: \"new intensity of auditory experience (or attention), along with the sharpening of his other senses.\" Instead, Torey nurtured a \"totally pliable and responsive mental space,\" one that has allowed him to accomplish solo roof repairs (in the middle of the night) and to visualize the workings of a differential gearbox.
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Learning to write in Mississippi
In William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom, a young Canadian college student tells his roommate, a scion of the Old South, that he finds it hard to imagine being part of so much bloodsoaked, tragic, glorious history. So what better place than Mississippi for a Canadian writing instructor to find inspiration?
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The Eminent Sweet Shop
For poets, dramatists, philosophers... and tourists, Greece has been for millennia a place to call home.
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Sexual Outlaws and the Posses of Hearsay
Though the egregiousness of pedophila cannot be diminished, media abuse of language taints public opinion of child sexual abuse. Gothic depiction of melodramatic sex crimes, unrestrained use of words or phrases such as \"dark souls,\" \"sexual predators,\" & \"sexual attacks,\" & juxtaposition of descriptions of sadistic child slayings with accounts of simple pedophiles paints a unified picture of all sexual offenders as raving lunatics hell-bent for blood & lust. Propelled by concerns for child welfare, public opinion has evolved to view any sex offense as worthy of the most stringent punishment & regulation. In this process, the media has acted more to define public opinion than to express it. D. Generoli
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Shared voice of Michel Tremblay
In Oct 1992, Glasgow's Tron Theatre Company brought its production of The Guid Sisters to Montreal. This translation of Michel Tremblay's Les Belles soeurs elucidates the cultural & linguistic connections between the joual of Quebec & Modern Scots. In addition to political & economic similarities, translator Martin Bowman emphasizes \"the religious parallel, which is a very potent one for me as a Scots Presbyterian brought up in Quebec.\" An interview with Bowman - complemented by co-translator Bill Findlay's theory of analogous registers in these two minority vernaculars - provides clear elaboration of the collective theatrical effort to locate & express shared voice. 3 Photographs. AA
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