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In his prize-winning play, The Iceman Cometh, Eugene O’Neill presents a drama about the human need for hope and illusion as a response to the conditions of despair.
12:15:39 2009-11-23
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“Nyor” is how we address older friends in Bathalad (Bathalan-ong Halad sa Dagang or Divine Gift to the Quill), a group originally created by young poets in the late 1960s to promote literature in Cebuano. When we speak casually, we tend to shorten words , and Nyor is a good example of that.
09:51:13 2009-11-22
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Bella Stella noticed a group of other stars huddled in close conference. What could it be that they were so interested in? Perhaps they were talking about her – she was new here (she had been created just three million years ago).
20:38:44 2009-11-20
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THE ENGINEER has reinvented himself as a writer. Abdon M. Balde Jr., now in his 60s, may not have had formal writing lessons, but when he was taking up civil engineering at the Aquinas University in Legazpi City and eventually graduated in 1967, he was the features and managing editor of the campus paper “The Aquinian"
21:11:19 2009-11-18
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WORKING AS A REPORTER of the hard-hitting anti-Marcos Mr. & Ms. Special Edition and as deskperson of the Philippine Daily Inquirer in the 1980s, Candy Quimpo-Gourlay always thought she was the “wrong kind of writer.”
01:40:57 2009-11-15
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Vanessa Valdez wrote, or co-wrote, some of the more memorable Filipino romantic movies of recent years, including “One More Chance,” “You Are the One,” “A Love Story” and, “And I Love You So.”
22:59:02 2009-10-31
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EVEN as a child, he knew fear. He lived near it and it found a home in his young imagination.
21:57:01 2009-10-24
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The world agape. All eyes fixed
on what once was whole, breaking,
21:56:27 2009-10-24
