“Seek for Something New”: Mothers, Change, and Creativity in Tony Kushner’s <i>Angels in America, Homebody/Kabul, </i>and <i>Caroline, or Change</i>
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Despite striking differences in subject matter and dramatic form, each of these works probes the connections between mothers and children; each arguably is a kind of meditation on the meaning of the death of Kushner’s own mother, Sylvia Deutscher Kushner. Angels, Homebody/Kabul, and Caroline, or Change, however, do not sentimentalize the mother–child relationship nor do they identify mother figures with some unalterable biological ground of being. Instead, “mothers” in these dramas perform actions that disrupt the status quo and the fixity of identity: they shift location, stir up change, and even multiply into doubles and triples, whose personalities and ideas sometimes mirror, sometimes contradict, each other. Thus mothers and their relationships to the next generation of children serve as important loci for dramatizing the operation of the dialectic.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it