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George Bernard Shaw’s ‘Pygmalion’: A study in working-class literature
November 9, 2022Highlighted at the award ceremony was “his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty.”
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The fight to save affirmative action is a fight to save democracy
November 3, 2022Republicans chip away at democracy at the ballot box; right-wing Supreme Court justices do it from the bench.
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Dazzling opera about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera premieres in San Diego
November 3, 2022Fifteen years in the making, the new opera is a stunner, gorgeously produced, lovingly performed.
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Mike Davis, acclaimed Marxist activist, journalist, and historian, dies at 76
November 2, 2022Mike Davis was an authentic follower of Marx and Engels who lived his life wedding theory and praxis, enriching the world with his genuine concern and love for working people and their struggles for dignity.
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‘Omar’: Opera about an enslaved Muslim may become a runaway hit
November 1, 2022It’s a story of brutal enslavement in America, told in an accessible manner both in narrative and song. It’s a paean to survival despite hell, the will to live another day.
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