Word: appeared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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University officials often have a way of being unavailable when large groups of angry people appear with pickets and public address systems, making demands...
...compound the problem, most of the actors in this "bound-for-Broadway" production do not even try to enliven the proceedings. Ann Sachs as Lucy, the pale afflicted one, is the first character to appear on stage. She has enough energy to flit about in her gossamer frock--but right off the bat, we can tell she is wan and vapid. Other characters are not much better...
...subject to these regulations, which frequently limited their movement from town to town, inhibited their freedom of speech and made their property liable to search at any time and often allegedly for no apparent reason. In general, Shahak says, Israel's Arab citizens (as opposed to West Bank residents) appear much, better off than they were even two years ago. However, Shahak continued to fight what he calls the uneven, double system of justice that still exists today...
Perhaps Shahak's unruly teddy-bear appearance belies his public identity as a "dangerous" critic of the Israeli status quo; perhaps his thick accent and inattention to English syntax when speaking camouflages the eloquence of his pleas for human rights. Although he might appear less at home in a law court or a police detention center than in the chemistry lab (where the Israeli government, no doubt, fervently wishes he would remain), Israel Shahak's championing of human rights gives him the composure of someone who is doing what he believes in--and he directs advice to listeners from that...
...climax of the production comes when the chamelion-like Flynn shows the jury that "things are not always as they appear to be." He manipulates an entire jury which is impressively acted by a single man who jumps from chair to chair protraying every absurd stereotype, reminding the audience that they are equally foolish...