{"id":9376,"date":"2019-10-14T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarkcollegelibraries.org\/blog\/?p=9376"},"modified":"2020-01-22T13:27:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T20:27:48","slug":"this-week-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarkcollegelibraries.org\/blog\/this-week-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week In History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just in time for Halloween, we celebrate the birthday of the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray. <\/em>Oscar Wilde was born this week in 1854. The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em>\u00a0is the story of a man who wishes that his painted portrait would age while he would not.\u00a0 Eerily, his wish is granted, but ultimately with consequences. The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em> can be found in our General collection at PR5819 .A15 2003.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.\u201d
\n\u2015\u00a0Wendy Wasserstein<\/span><\/p>\n

We remember play-write Wendy Wasserstein who was born this week in 1950.\u00a0 Her work,\u00a0The Heidi\u00a0<\/em>Chronicles,\u00a0<\/i>won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989.<\/p>\n

The Heidi\u00a0<\/em>Chronicles\u00a0<\/i> can be located in the General collection at PS3573 .A798 H4 1991<\/p>\n

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\u201cToo many of us are hung up on what we don’t have, can’t have, or won’t ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy \u2013 if not less of it \u2013 doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.\u201d
\n\u2015\u00a0Terry McMillan ,\u00a0<\/span>Disappearing Acts<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Happy Birthday to Author Terry McMillan.\u00a0\u00a0Disappearing Acts<\/em> may be found in the General collection at PS3563 .C3868 D57 1989<\/p>\n

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