He also published, through Bantam Books, four volumes of "Editors' Choice," selections of short fiction chosen by America's top magazine editors. He did the same thing for poets in "The Poets' Choice," which "sold like crazy," he said. Through his own imprint, Wampeter Press, he published "Matters of Life and Death," a collection of American short stories edited by Tobias Wolff. "It was a hot book," recalled George, and soon circulated as a textbook. Esquire magazine called Wampeter one of the best small presses in the country. George is still writing: His Spaulding Gray-like monologue "Electra" was a feature of the first Key West Theatre Festival and last year (with co-author Reva Spawn) he completed a screenplay, "White Gold." He continues to be a practicing poet. His first collection...
[Helen Gahagan Douglas] found a more meaningful role as a plucky politician who defied McCarthyism and broke the gender barrier. A celebrity Democrat, she cleared the path to Washington for Republicans Ronald Reagan, George Murphy, Shirley Temple Black and Sonny Bono. "To be the first Hollywood personality making a foray into national politics was daring," writes [Sally Denton]. "To be the first female movie star to do so was audacious." Audacious and vivacious, Douglas was one of nine women in Congress when she took her oath of office in 1945, almost 40 years before Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters and Dianne Feinstein. In 1950, she became the first woman in California history to run for the U.S. Senate. She was defeated by a hungry young congressman named Richard Nixon in a ...
[George Murphy] is the author of two books of poetry, a stage adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's "Mother Night" and has edited numerous literary anthologies, including "Poetics: Essays of the Art of Poetry" and "The Key West Reader." He has been featured on stage at the Red Barn in numerous hit plays including "Jeffrey," "Pageant," "Shel's Shorts" and "Sherlock's secret Life.
The religion of no religion is about a social unveiling that often involves a terrible disappointment and a simultaneous freedom. There's a robust sense of discovery going on every day," [Michael Murphy] continued, describing the process as a passage from "breakdown to breakthrough." Along with the gradual "unveiling" of truths from our physical, social and inner worlds, its main features include the adoption of a global perspective and a subsequent drive to synthesize and give coherence to humanity's full range of spiritual and intellectual resources. "This effort to make sense of all this is worldwide," Murphy asserted. "Although quasi-underground, a great synthesis is underfoot. I believe the main game of the universe is a gradual unveiling of our latent divinity.
* Only in West Virginia would the head of the so-called Department of Environmental Protection say "we won" to a pro-coal ruling by the federal court. * Of course, the GOP has always believed in fairytale land, as witnessed by their worship of Ronald Reagan, a third-rate actor who played the role of president for eight years. By the way, what is it with the GOP and Hollywood? They slam actors all the time, but love to vote for them, as witnessed by Reagan, George Murphy and the Terminator.
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