Edward P. Jones: …third book followed in 2006, All Aunt Hagar’s Children, a collection of short stories that returned to the working-class Washington, D.C., in which Jones’s first book was set. Like Lost in the City, it drew comparisons to James Joyce’s Dubliners. In 2010 Jones joined the faculty of the George Washington…

Lesotho: Challenges in the 21st century: …Thabane, leaving to form the All Basotho Convention (ABC); many other LCD ministers followed Thabane to the ABC. Nevertheless, the LCD managed to maintain control of the parliament after early elections were called in February 2007. Although the elections were generally viewed as free and fair by international observers, the…

priesthood of all believers, cardinal doctrinal principle of the churches of the 16th-century Reformation, both Lutheran and Reformed, and the Protestant Free churches that arose from the Reformation churches. The doctrine asserts that all humans have access to God through Christ, the true high

Sean Fitzpatrick: …any other member of the All Blacks (nickname of the New Zealand national team), having played 92 Test matches. He also played in a record 63 consecutive Test matches (1983–95).

Lope de Vega: Works of Lope de Vega: In Fuente Ovejuna the entire village assumes responsibility before the king for the slaying of its overlord and wins his exoneration. This experiment in mass psychology, the best known outside Spain of all his plays, evoked a particular response from audiences in tsarist Russia.

James Herriot: …in the United States as All Creatures Great and Small (1972). The instant best seller inaugurated a series of highly popular books, which were adapted for film and television.

Ray Davies: Life as a Kink: The hits “All Day and All of the Night” (1964) and “Tired of Waiting for You” (1965) followed.

Colin MacInnes: Later life and work: …another novel set in Australia, All Day Saturday (1966); a pair of historical novels, Westward to Laughter: A Novel of Adventure (1969) and Three Years to Play (1970); the book-length essay Loving Them Both: A Study of Bisexuality and Bisexuals (1973); and Out of the Garden: A Novel (1974), his…

All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, private club and grounds in the Wimbledon neighbourhood of London, England, U.K., which is famed as the venue for the Wimbledon Championships in tennis. The club features 18 Championships grass courts, 20 practice grass courts, 8 clay courts, 2 acrylic

Tupac Shakur: That album, All Eyez on Me (1996), was a two-disc paean to the “thug life” that Shakur embodied. It debuted at number one on the Billboard charts and sold more than five million copies within its first year of release. Quick to capitalize on his most recent…

John Arden: …fellow students performed his comedy All Fall Down (1955), about the construction of a railway. He continued to write plays while working as an architectural assistant from 1955 to 1957. His first play to be produced professionally was a radio drama, The Life of Man (1956). Waters of Babylon (1957),…

John Frankenheimer: Films of the 1960s: Next came All Fall Down (1962), a drama based on a novel by James Leo Herlihy, with a screenplay by William Inge. It starred Warren Beatty as a callous womanizer whose adoring younger brother (Brandon deWilde) gradually comes to despise him. Frankenheimer’s first popular success was Birdman…

Julio Cortázar: …los fuegos el fuego (1966; All Fires the Fire, and Other Stories), Un tal Lucas (1979; A Certain Lucas), and Queremos tanto a Glenda, y otros relatos (1981; We Love Glenda So Much, and Other Tales). Cortázar also wrote poetry and plays and published numerous volumes of essays.

muggins, domino game similar to the regular drawing game except for the rule that if a player can play a piece that makes the sum of the open-end pips on the layout a multiple of five, he scores that number. Each player takes five pieces. If the leader poses (places) either 5-5 (double-five), 6-4,

April Fools’ Day, in most countries the first day of April. It received its name from the custom of playing practical jokes on this day—for example, telling friends that their shoelaces are untied or sending them on so-called fools’ errands. Although the day has been observed for centuries, its

John Dryden: Writing for the stage: …different mode was his tragedy All for Love (1677), based on Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra and written in a flowing but controlled blank verse. He had earlier adapted The Tempest (1667), and later he reworked yet another Shakespeare play, Troilus and Cressida (1679). Dryden had now entered what may be…

Diana Krall: …came three years later with All for You, a tribute to Nat King Cole that spent more than a year on the jazz best-seller lists. She gained a wider audience with When I Look in Your Eyes (1999), for which she also received her first Grammy Award. Later albums included…

all fours, ancestor of a family of card games dating back to 17th-century England and first mentioned in The Complete Gamester of Charles Cotton in 1674. The face card formerly known as the knave owes its modern name of jack to this game. Originally, all fours was regarded as a lower-class game—it

Eduardo Mallea: In Todo verdor perecerá (1941; All Green Shall Perish), which many consider his greatest work, he explored—by the use of interior monologue and flashback techniques—the anguish of a woman living in the provinces.

Queen Latifah: …following year her debut album, All Hail the Queen, appeared. Propelled by diverse styles—including soul, reggae, and dance—and feminist themes, it earned positive reviews and attracted a wide audience.

All Saints’ Day, in the Christian church, a day commemorating all the saints of the church, both known and unknown, who have attained heaven. It is celebrated on November 1 in the Western churches and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in the Eastern churches. In Roman Catholicism, the feast is

Halloween, a holiday observed on October 31 and noted for its pagan and religious roots and secular traditions. In much of Europe and most of North America, observance of Halloween is largely nonreligious, celebrated with parties, spooky costumes, jack-o’-lanterns, pumpkin carvings, and the giving

Sleater-Kinney: …further raised Sleater-Kinney’s profile, and All Hands on the Bad One (2000), with its intimations of 1960s girl-group vocal harmonies, showed a marked turn toward pop songcraft while maintaining the band’s distinct edge.

Douglas Sirk: Films of the early to mid-1950s: All I Desire (1953), another period piece, starring Richard Carlson and Barbara Stanwyck, left more of an impression as Sirk presented the melodramatic elements of the story with a conviction and flourish uncommon to the genre. Taza, Son of Cochise (1954), released in 3-D before…

Kelly Clarkson: …rock and pop tendencies on All I Ever Wanted (2009) and Stronger (2011), the latter of which earned her another Grammy Award for best pop vocal album. Powerfully produced singles such as “My Life Would Suck Without You” and “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” extended her string of hits. Additionally,…

the Everly Brothers: …Up Little Susie” (1957), “All I Have to Do Is Dream” (1958), and “Cathy’s Clown” (1960).

Kenny Chesney: …first album for that company, All I Need to Know (1995)—a mixture of love songs, ballads, and upbeat honky-tonk tunes—sold well, but his next album, the lighter and livelier Me and You (1996), sold more than 500,000 copies.

Sheryl Crow: Tuesday Night Music Club: …the enormous popularity of “All I Wanna Do” that put Crow on the charts. At the 1994 Grammy Awards ceremony she received three awards: best record and best pop vocal performance by a female for “All I Wanna Do” as well as best new artist.

Operation Just Cause: …“Panama” by Van Halen, “All I Want Is You” by U2, and “If I Had a Rocket Launcher” by Bruce Cockburn). Noriega was then transported to Miami, Florida, where he was tried, convicted of a raft of charges, and sentenced to a U.S. prison. In the wake of the…

All in the Family, American television situation comedy that aired on CBS for eight seasons (1971–79). The show continued from 1979 to 1983 under the title Archie Bunker’s Place. All in the Family became one of the most successful sitcoms of its time. The show was based on the popular British

All India Dravidian Progressive Federation, Regional political party of India, principally in Tamil Nadu state. It was formed in 1972 by veteran movie-actor-turned-politician Maruthur Gopala Ramachandran (popularly known as MGR), who broke away from the Dravidian Progressive Federation (Dravida

All India Dravidian Progressive Federation, Regional political party of India, principally in Tamil Nadu state. It was formed in 1972 by veteran movie-actor-turned-politician Maruthur Gopala Ramachandran (popularly known as MGR), who broke away from the Dravidian Progressive Federation (Dravida

Muslim League, political group that led the movement calling for a separate Muslim nation to be created at the time of the partition of British India (1947). The Muslim League was founded in 1906 to safeguard the rights of Indian Muslims. At first the league was encouraged by the British and was

radio: In Asia: …stations created in the 1990s): All India Radio (AIR) broadcast in 24 languages and 146 dialects to reach 98 percent of its burgeoning population. In addition to hundreds of daily news bulletins, AIR developed special bulletins on sports, youth, and other major events. Some 80 stations by the late 1990s…

West Bengal: History of West Bengal: …the All India Trinamool (or Trinamul) Congress (AITC), had been an ally in what was then the Congress Party’s national ruling coalition government. The AITC’s founder and leader, Mamata Banerjee, became the state’s first female chief minister (head of government).

All India Women’s Conference (AIWC), organization dedicated to improving women’s education and social welfare in India. The All India Women’s Conference (AIWC) is one of the oldest women’s organizations in the country. Several hundred local AIWC branches are located across India, with thousands of

Robert Redford: Better received, however, was All Is Lost (2013), in which he played a sailor whose yacht is struck by a shipping container; the tense survival drama featured little dialogue, and Redford was the only actor in the movie. He then appeared in the action film Captain America: The Winter…

Kenneth Branagh: …then directed and starred in All Is True (2018), which centres on Shakespeare’s final years.

Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC), regional political party in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, northwestern India. In October 1932 the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference, the precursor of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC), was founded at Srinagar by Sheikh

Water Margin, ancient Chinese vernacular novel known from several widely varying manuscripts under the name Shuihuzhuan. Its variations are so extreme as to make the work the most textually complex in Chinese literature; the text cannot be dated with accuracy, and its authors cannot be identified.

Chadwick Boseman: …acted on the soap opera All My Children in a role later assumed by Michael B. Jordan. Other TV credits included Law & Order, CSI: NY, and ER. He had a recurring role (2008–09) on Lincoln Heights and was cast in the short-lived mystery series Persons Unknown (2010).

Larry McMurtry: …featured in Moving On (1970), All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers (1972), and Terms of Endearment (1975; film 1983).

Anne Sexton: Sexton’s second book of poems, All My Pretty Ones (1962), continued in the vein of uncompromising self-exploration. Live or Die (1966), a further record of emotional illness, won a Pulitzer Prize and was followed by, among others, Love Poems (1969), Transformations (1971), The Book of Folly (1972), and

All My Sons, drama in three acts by Arthur Miller, performed and published in 1947. All My Sons was considered Miller’s first significant play. With an underlying theme of guilt and responsibility, the drama centres on Joe Keller, a manufacturer of war materials, whose substandard and defective

baseball: Segregation: Especially noteworthy was the All Nations team, composed of African Americans, whites, a Japanese, a Hawaiian, an American Indian, and several Latin Americans. On its roster at various times before World War I were two of the greatest Black pitchers, John Donaldson and Jose Mendez.

All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. (ANA), the largest domestic air carrier in Japan, and one of the largest in the world. The company was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Tokyo. Under the Japanese government’s strict regulation of civil aviation, All Nippon Airways was basically restricted to

Carl Reiner: Film directing: Next was All of Me (1984), possibly Reiner’s most-sustained comic effort. It starred Martin as an attorney whose body becomes possessed by the soul of a sour millionaire (Lily Tomlin). Although the film continued the streak of hits for Reiner and Martin, it was the last they…

Harlem Hellfighters: The Hellfighters at war: “All of No Man’s Land Is Ours” described a soldier’s first call to his sweetheart, and “How Ya Gonna Keep ’Em Down on the Farm?” was a playful tune about the appeal of Paris in contrast to life at home. The latter song carried a…

Mike Leigh: …to a contemporary setting with All or Nothing (2002), which focuses on the residents of a public housing estate. He captured Oscar nominations for best director and best original screenplay for Vera Drake (2004), about a kindhearted woman in early 1950s England who clandestinely performs abortions. In his next two…

Harry James: The James-Sinatra recording of “All or Nothing at All” was a flop when first released in 1939, but it sold more than a million copies when rereleased in 1943.

Pervez Musharraf: …a new political party, the All Pakistan Muslim League, and vowed to return to Pakistan in time for the 2013 national elections. He did so in March 2013, but his bid to stand in elections faced a variety of legal and political obstacles, including several open criminal investigations regarding his…

Sierra Leone: Constitutional framework: …one-party republic based on the All People’s Congress; the head of state, or executive president, was elected by delegates of the All People’s Congress, and there was a parliament. Mounting political pressures and violence resulted in the adoption of a new constitution in 1991 that established a multiparty system. However,…

Simon Armitage: Other works: Armitage’s volumes of memoir include All Points North (1998), Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-Star Fantasist (2009), and Walking Home (2012), which recounts his experience walking the Pennine Way in England. He also has penned plays, an opera libretto, and the script for a puppet opera. Other projects…

best of all possible worlds, in the philosophy of the early modern philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), the thesis that the existing world is the best world that God could have created. Leibniz’s argument for the doctrine of the best of all possible worlds, now commonly called

Odumegwu Ojukwu: …that he helped form, the All Progressive Grand Alliance, unsuccessfully ran for president. He ran again in 2007 but was defeated by the ruling party’s candidate, Umaru Yar’Adua, in an election that was strongly criticized by international observers as being marred by voting irregularities.

All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigerian political party formed in 2013 via a merger of prominent opposition parties. It has been the country’s ruling party since 2015. The All Progressives Congress (APC) was formed in a political environment in Nigeria that had been dominated, since the county’s

Ethel Lynn Beers: …Magazine printed her poem entitled “The Picket Guard,” which soon became better known by its first line, “All Quiet Along the Potomac To-night,” a familiar newspaper caption of those early months of the Civil War. The poem, often reprinted and later regularly anthologized, was subsequently claimed by several others. In…

All Quiet on the Western Front, novel by German writer Erich Maria Remarque, published in 1929 as Im Westen nichts Neues and in the United States as All Quiet on the Western Front. An antiwar novel set during World War I, it relies on Remarque’s personal experience in the war to depict the era’s

All Quiet on the Western Front, American war film, released in 1930 and set during World War I, that is regarded as one of the most effective antiwar movies ever made. It won great praise in the United States but was banned in several other countries, including Germany, because of its pacifist

Jennifer Hudson: …also appeared in the films All Rise (2018) and Cats (2019), the latter of which is an adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s blockbuster stage musical. In 2021 Hudson starred as legendary soul singer Aretha Franklin in the biopic Respect.

insurance: Perils insured: ” All-risk policies offer insurance on any peril except those later excluded in the policy. The advantage of these contracts is that if property is destroyed by a peril not specifically excluded the insurance is good. In named-peril policies, no coverage is provided unless the property…

Metéora: …Great Metéoron, Varlaám (also called All Saints [Áyioi Pándes]), Roussanou, St. Nikolas (Áyios Nikolaos), Holy Trinity (Áyia Triada), and St. Stephen (Áyios Stéfanos). Some still serve a religious function, though they are now only sparsely populated by monks and nuns. Since the construction of paved roads through the area in…

Schaffhausen: …there the Benedictine monastery of All Saints, around which the community developed. The town became a free imperial city between 1190 and 1218 but fell under Habsburg domination from 1330, until it bought its independence in 1415. It allied with the Swiss Confederation against the Habsburgs in 1454 and was…

Todos os Santos Bay, sheltered bay of the Atlantic Ocean on the eastern coast of Brazil. A natural harbour, it is 25 miles (40 km) long and 20 miles (32 km) wide. Salvador, the principal seaport and capital of Bahia state, is on the peninsula that separates the bay from the Atlantic. Todos os

Western architecture: From the 19th to the early 20th century: …his power and originality was All Saints’, Margaret Street, London, designed in 1849 and largely completed by 1852. This church was sponsored by the Ecclesiological Society. But it is not its liturgical correctness that makes it so important in the history of the Gothic Revival. From the pavement to the…

All Saints’ Day, in the Christian church, a day commemorating all the saints of the church, both known and unknown, who have attained heaven. It is celebrated on November 1 in the Western churches and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in the Eastern churches. In Roman Catholicism, the feast is

James Renwick: …Saint Bartholomew’s Church (1871–72) and All Saints’ Roman Catholic Church (1882–93), both in New York City, feature Gothic-Romanesque forms built with stonework of contrasting colours and textures to produce effects of dazzling richness.

All Saints’ Day, in the Christian church, a day commemorating all the saints of the church, both known and unknown, who have attained heaven. It is celebrated on November 1 in the Western churches and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in the Eastern churches. In Roman Catholicism, the feast is

the Replacements: …personalities, the Replacements dissolved after All Shook Down (1990), which was essentially a solo album by Westerberg, whose solo career was the most successful of those of the ex-Replacements. A lineup of the Replacements that included Westerberg and Tommy Stinson played several high-profile concerts in 2013–15 before breaking up again.

Sir Walter Besant: …his first independent novel, entitled All Sorts and Conditions of Men and based on his impressions of the East London slums, which he saw as joyless rather than vicious places. The “Palace of Delights” that he projected in his book became a reality when the People’s Palace was founded (1887)…

Buddhism: All Souls festival: The importance of the virtues of filial piety and the reverence of ancestors in China and Japan have established Ullambana, or All Souls Day, as one of the major Buddhist festivals in those countries. In China worshipers in Buddhist temples make fachuan…

All Souls’ Day, in Roman Catholicism, a day for commemoration of all the faithful departed, those baptized Christians who are believed to be in purgatory because they died with the guilt of lesser sins on their souls. It is observed on November 2. Roman Catholic doctrine holds that the prayers of

Roy Medvedev: …of that Soviet leader, while All Stalin’s Men (1984) presents biographies of six of Stalin’s lieutenants who managed to survive him. The Unknown Stalin: His Life, Death, and Legacy (2004) was written with his brother. In On Socialist Democracy (1975), Medvedev presented his own political views, calling for both democratic…

Samuel Beckett: The humour and mastery: His radio plays, such as All That Fall (1957), are models in the combined use of sound, music, and speech. The short television play Eh Joe! (1967) exploits the television camera’s ability to move in on a face and the particular character of small-screen drama. Finally, his film script Film…

Douglas Sirk: From All That Heaven Allows to Imitation of Life: With the glossy All That Heaven Allows (1955), Sirk again found plenty of room for his carefully heightened embellishments, creating another work that was hugely popular with contemporary audiences. It later would be championed by a wide range of critics, as would Written on the Wind (1956), which…

Arthur Peacocke: The posthumously published All That Is: A Naturalistic Faith for the Twenty-first Century (2007), composed as he was dying of cancer, contains a summation of Peacocke’s beliefs, as well as responses from noted theologians and scientists.

Bob Fosse: Later work: Following open-heart surgery, Fosse directed All That Jazz (1979), a self-indulgent though hardly self-serving autobiographical film. In a career-defining performance, Roy Scheider starred as the driven, womanizing, self-destructive director-choreographer. The musical featured notable dance numbers and a strong script, but Fosse frequently interrupted the fast-paced story for hallucinations about death…

The Devil and Daniel Webster, American fantasy film, released in 1941, that was based on Stephen Vincent Benét’s 1937 short story of the same name. The movie is noted for its innovative camera work and Academy Award-winning score. Jabez Stone (played by James Craig), a down-on-his-luck 19th-century

U2: The aptly titled All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000) and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004) were focused on riffs and songs rather than atmosphere and mystery, and they succeeded in reestablishing the quartet as a commercial force, but at what price? The band took five…

Nan Goldin: …subject of Laura Portras’s documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, which won the best film award at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary.

John Boyne: …Boyne later published a sequel, All the Broken Places (2022), for an adult audience. Boyne’s second book for younger readers was Noah Barleywater Runs Away (2010), a fairy tale combining elements of magic and fantasy with life lessons.

Daniel Handler: …later explored teeenage sexuality in All the Dirty Parts (2017), which centres on a 17-year-old boy. The dark comedy Bottle Grove was published in 2019. He also wrote Why We Broke Up (2011), a young-adult novel about first love, and the children’s picture book The Dark (2013).

Robert Rossen: The 1940s and early ’50s: …rank of Hollywood directors with All the King’s Men (1949), which he also produced and scripted, adapting the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren. It was an enormous critical and commercial success, winning Academy Awards for best picture, best actor (Broderick Crawford), and best supporting actress (Mercedes

All the King’s Men, novel by Robert Penn Warren, published in 1946. The story concerns the rise and fall of Willie Stark, a character modeled on Huey Long, the governor of Louisiana during the time frame of the novel (late 1920s to early ’30s). The book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947. Stark comes

Sean Penn: life; The Interpreter (2005); and All the King’s Men (2006), an adaptation of Robert Penn Warren’s novel about a populist politician. Penn returned to directing with Into the Wild (2007). The film—based on Jon Krakauer’s best-selling book of the same name—chronicles the journey of Christopher McCandless, an idealistic college graduate…

Robert Aldrich: The 1970s: …amusing was the popular comedy …All the Marbles (1981), with Peter Falk as the unprincipled manager of a pair of women wrestlers. Faced with declining health, Aldrich subsequently retired from directing.

Ridley Scott: …2017 included Alien: Covenant and All the Money in the World, about the 1973 kidnapping of oil baron and philanthropist J. Paul Getty’s grandson. The latter movie was finished in October 2017—some two months before its scheduled release—when Kevin Spacey, who played Getty, was accused of sexual harassment. Fearing moviegoers…

Adolph Simon Ochs: …Ochs adopted the slogan “All the News That’s Fit to Print” (first used October 25, 1896) and insisted on reportage that lived up to that promise. Despite an early shortage of capital, he refused advertisements that he considered dishonest or in poor taste. In 1898, when sales were low…

Phil Ochs: His first album, All the News That’s Fit to Sing (1964), reflected his aspirations as a “singing journalist.” A wavery tenor, Ochs employed melodic lyricism, strident leftist views, and dry wit to engage listeners. For a time he was seen as the most serious challenger to Bob Dylan…

Laurence Fishburne: … (2021), and the espionage drama All the Old Knives (2022).

Alan J. Pakula: Films of the 1970s: His next effort, All the President’s Men (1976), was an adaptation of the best-selling book by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (played in the movie by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, respectively) about the Watergate scandal. Applying the techniques he had developed in Klute and The Parallax View…

All the President’s Men, nonfictional book written by The Washington Post journalists Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward and published in 1974. The book recounts their experiences as journalists covering the break-in on June 17, 1972, at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate

All the Pretty Horses, best-selling novel by Cormac McCarthy, published in 1992 and made into a film in 2000. Set in 1949, All the Pretty Horses, the first novel in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, centers on John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old cowboy old enough to choose his way of life but too young

Billy Bob Thornton: …Damon and Penélope Cruz in All the Pretty Horses (2000), a film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s 1992 novel, and wrote, directed, and starred in Daddy and Them (2001), a comedy about a dysfunctional southern family.

Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine: Professional life: …lord chancellor during the so-called Ministry of All the Talents. His latter years were marked by private sorrows and misfortunes, which caused him almost completely to withdraw from public affairs. Toward the close of his life, however, he again achieved widespread prominence by his role in defense of Queen Caroline,…

Bryan Cranston: … debut in Robert Schenkkan’s play All the Way (2014). His portrayal of U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson as he struggled to achieve passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 earned him a Tony Award. He reprised the role for a 2016 HBO film of the same name. In 2017…

Bryan Cranston: …role for a 2016 HBO film of the same name. In 2017 Cranston made his London stage debut, starring in the play Network, about a television network that exploits the breakdown of one its news anchors. For his performance, he won an Olivier Award for best actor. Cranston reprised the…

Charles Dickens: Journalism: …Words (1850–59) and its successor, All the Year Round (1859–88). Popular weekly miscellanies of fiction, poetry, and essays on a wide range of topics, these had substantial and increasing circulations, reaching 300,000 for some of the Christmas numbers. Dickens contributed some serials—the lamentable Child’s History of England (1851–53), Hard Times…

Gwyn Thomas: Thomas’s next important novel, All Things Betray Thee (1949), set in an ironworks in industrial Wales in 1885, is grim in style and tone but relieved by an ironic humour. A Few Selected Exits (1968) is “a sort of autobiography.” Among his plays are The Keep (1962), Loud Organs…

radio: Pirates and public-service radio: …decades—were carrying the highly popular All Things Considered afternoon public-affairs program, among many others, and had developed a small but loyal audience. NPR did not serve hundreds of smaller FM outlets that were deemed too marginal to contribute to a national service. Hundreds of smaller community stations, therefore, unable to…