Thornton Wilder

More Than the Girl Next Door: 8 Actors on Emily in “Our Town”

January 17, 2021

In a Broadway production of “Our Town,” Helen Hunt, right, played Emily Webb with Jason Gedrick, left, as George Gibbs and Don Ameche as the Stage Manager. Credit…Brigitte Lacombe, via Lincoln Center Theater Here is a brief excerpt from an…

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David Brooks on the “Crooked Timber Mentality”

June 26, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by David Brooks for The New York Times. He shares his thoughts about a blog post by Lydia Netzer. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please…

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Harder Than I Thought: A book review by Bob Morris

December 4, 2012

Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader  Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why “the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present” in today’s business world Most of the…

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Harder Than I Thought: A book review by Bob Morris

November 29, 2012

Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why “the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present” in…

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Don’t Know Much About History: David McCullough on “historical illiteracy”

July 9, 2011

Here is a sequence of brief excerpts from an interview of David McCullough by Brian Bolduc, featured in The Wall Street Journal (June 18, 2011). To read the complete interview, please click here. *     *     * The popular historian David…

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