Originally Posted by blaise:
Jitney is one of my favorite plays. I like the way he moves from different times of day, and how he can get you to sense the lives of the characters outside the stage. When I read it I can see the city outside the stage, which is just so skilled on his part.
I'm also about to start a book called Kaufman & Co., which has plays George Kaufman wrote with Edna Ferber, Moss Hart, Ring Lardner, and Morrie Ryskind.
It has a couple of musicals, though, which I'll skip. I don't really like reading musicals. I'm planning to start with June Moon because he wrote it with Ring Lardner, and Lardner's book "You Know Me Al" is a personal favorite of mine.
I was damn good as Herman Glogauer in a production of Hart & Kaufman's Once In a Lifetime a few years back. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Reaper16:
Define "small--medium sized schools." I did my undergrad at Northwest Missouri State University (enrollment in the 7,000s) because I wanted an undergrad experience where I wasn't taught by grad students.
UNI, about 12-13K, does not have grad students teaching their History, Political Science or English classes. Neither does a school like Coe, private, 2K.
Originally Posted by :
This is not true.
What is untrue about it, Hamas? There are many grad students teaching classes at small--medium sized schools? [Reply]
Just checked out A Glorious Cause from the library. In large print version of course. Just finished A Rise to Rebellion by the same author, Jeff Shaara. Highly recommend him. Easy and compelling reading. Historically accurate. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Jenson71:
What is untrue about it, Hamas? There are many grad students teaching classes at small--medium sized schools?
Depending on the college, yes. It's not just something that happens at large state schools. I went to a liberal arts school of about 6K and took my freshman comp class from a grad student.
It all depends on the university, though. Schools w/ doctoral programs will often have their students teaching both freshman and sophomore level classes in a variety of disciplines. [Reply]
Just finished the entire "Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures" series by Dewey Lambdin.
If Horatio Hornblower liked to get drunk and do hookers, he would of hung out with Alan Lewrie. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Delano:
Amazon's 'release day delivery' failed so far. UPS had better be en route with my ****ing WOT fix. Posted via Mobile Device
I went to pre-order it, er, Friday maybe, and they didn't offer that release day delivery any more (I'd seen it earlier in the month), so I decided I'd just pick it up at a real world store. Luckily it's on the way to work, so no fuss, no muss.
I re-read The Gathering Storm last week, and it wasn't quite as bad as I remember (although I never thought it 'bad' so much as slightly off). The last chapter with Rand still bothers me though. It just doesn't work somehow. [Reply]
