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Edward AlbeeAlbee and Beckett: Return of the Absurd
Playwright Edward Albee talks about juxtaposing his own work with Samuel Beckett’s in his current production, “Beckett/Albee.” Then New Yorker-by-birth Victor Grossman explains why he defected to East Germany in 1952. (Grossman notes that he’s the "only person in the world to attend Harvard and Karl Marx universities.") Laurence Gonzales tells how to survive in an emergency. And freelance travel and food writer Joel Denker on America’s ethnic cuisine.
Edward Albee, Marian Seldes and Brian Murray
Playwright Edward Albee and actors Marian Seldes and Brian
Murray talk about their recent production,
“Beckett/Albee.” It’s an open run at the Century
Center Theatre at 111 East 15th Street, and it features
work by both Albee and Samuel Beckett: Beckett’s ”Not
I”, ”A Piece of Monologue”, and Footfalls
and Albee’s ”Counting the Ways”.
Victor Grossman
In 1952, American Victor Grossman (born Stephen Wechsler)
swam across the Danube to what was then known as the Soviet
Zone, and eventually became a citizen of East Germany.
His book is Crossing the River: A Memoir of the American
Left, the Cold War, and Life in East Germany.
Laurence Gonzales
In Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why,
Laurence Gonzales explains why, in a crisis, 90% of people
freeze or panic, and 10% of people stay calm, cool, and
usually survive.
Joel Denker
Joel Denker’s recent book, The World on a Plate: A Tour
through the History of America's Ethnic Cuisine, is
about the culinary history of immigrants and the effects of
their foods on American culture.
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Tom Daschle on Fixing America’s Health Care System
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Former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle has accepted President-Elect Barack Obama’s offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. You can hear Tom Daschle talk about his prescriptions for fixing American’s health care crisis on the Leonard Lopate Show in March 2008.
Barack Obama, Circa 2004
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Listen to President-Elect Barack Obama on the Leonard Lopate Show in November 2004. He had recently won a seat in the U.S. Senate, and only a few months before, his rousing speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention catapulted him into the national spotlight.
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