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Chapters: People From Glencoe, Illinois, Fred Savage, Laurie Dann, Archibald Macleish, Lili Taylor, Skokie Lagoons, Ravine Bluffs Development, Sheridan Road, Douglas Conant, Kenneth Macleish, Paris Grey. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 60. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Laurie Dann (née Wasserman) (October 18, 1957May 20, 1988) was an American murderer who shot and killed a boy, and wounded two girls and three boys, in a Winnetka, Illinois, elementary school, then took a family hostage and shot a man before killing herself. Dann was born into a Jewish family in Chicago and grew up in Glencoe, an affluent northern suburb of Chicago. She was the daughter of an accountant, Norman Wasserman, and his wife, Edith. Those who knew Dann described her as shy and withdrawn but attractive. She dated a number of her male peers as a teenager and graduated from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, in 1975. Her grades were poor in high school, but she was able to attend Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. When her grades improved, she transferred to the University of Arizona with the goal of becoming a teacher. She began dating a pre-med student, and the relationship soon became serious, but she was becoming possessive and demanding. In 1980, with the relationship failing, Dann moved back to her parents' home. She then transferred to Northwestern University to complete her degree, but she dropped out of all her classes and never graduated. She met and married Russell Dann, an executive in a successful insurance brokering firm in September 1982, but the marriage was quickly in trouble as Russell Dann and her family noted signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder and other strange behavior, including leaving trash around the house. Laurie saw a psychiatrist for a short period, who identif...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2158718 ... Read more

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Amazing, timely plays
I am a theater director, and I directed two of the plays in this volume.One (Air Raid) is about civilians caught in the middle of a war.The other (This Music Crept by Me Upon the Waters) is about people trying to find meaning in their lives, but ultimately just going along with the status quo.

Air Raid was written in the thirties, a reponse to Picasso's painting Guernica, wich was a reponse to the bombing of a Basque village.But it could just as easily be about Iraq.

This Music was written in the fifties, about post-war Americans and Brits with plenty of disposable income.Is reads like a condemnation of 21st century society, talking about environmentalism wile driving an SUV and living in a 5000 square foot house.

Great writer, great plays. ... Read more

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Good study, good how-to and just good reading!
If you're into literature at all, then reading a study of poetry by one of the all-time greats is a joy.The writing is conversational, yet literate and holds the reader's interest.If you're not devotingyour life to literature, but you need a resource, it's an excellent, accessible treatise.

MacLeish says that to understand what poetry is, you need a poet as a guide, since "the critics, though they have mapped those mountains, have never climbed them themselves."But he's referring not just to himself, but to a third-century Chinese poet, Lu Chi, who not only wrote poetry but wrote about the great writers he knew, and about "how a poem gets itself written."As MacLeish is our guide, Lu Chi is MacLeish's and appears throughout the book.

Chapter One, 'Words As Sounds', examines "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas.Chapter Two on 'Words as Signs' looks at a variety of poems and verses to consider: "Is there, within or in some other association with the lovely structure of the sounds, a structure of meanings?"Chapters Three and Four consider image and metaphor.

The last 4 chapters study individual poets and "The Shape of Meaning" : Emily Dickinson ('The Private World'); W. B. Yeats ('The Public World');Artur Rimbaud ('The Anti-World');and John Keats ('The Arable World').

There's a very good, though longer and more detailled book used by many colleges, called "Western Wind."I can recommend that one, too, but MacLeish is terrific and more succinct (gets it all in 199 pages, in my edition), and may be just what you're looking for.MacLeish would also be a good supplement to "Western Wind" if you're using WW in a class and would like a different explication and perspective.It deserves to be back in print, but used copies are, at this writing, readily available. ... Read more

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Original cast listed which includes Orson Welles, Burgess Meredith etc. ... Read more

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His second book. ... Read more