Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black Theater is theater by, about and directed towards the black community. Black Theater is entertaining (and not simply because drama-in-black-face is the current vogue), and, more importantly, illuminating. As Peter Bailey writes in Newsweek (February 24), ". . . its raison d'etre is cultural nationalism." Its purpose is to further the growth and self-knowledge of the black audience. In today's theater there is more than ever, before a natural empathy between the black playwright and his black audience; there is no need for an exposition of "the problem," the presumption being that the audience, being black...
...Bailey mentions the Lonnie Elder play, "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men," performed by the Negro Ensemble Company in New York, as an example of Black Theater. The play explores the material and psychological problems of a black Harlem family. The characters are neither one-dimensional nor stereotyped. Elder develops them into full black human beings: they face and resolve some of the problems raised, leaving others for the audience to ponder...
Nosal pulled a surprise in the 35-pound weight with an upset victory over Ajootian and Northeastern's Don Cybulski. The burly sophomore uncorked a heave of 62'2" to break the meet record of Ed Bailey '62 by nearly two feet. Ajootian copped runner-up laurels with Cybulski edging Harvard's Doug Griswold for third...
...Mailer's. He is not mainly a narrative writer; his stories are propelled by his analytical insights. He can pinpoint the perspectives of a society, such as the South's view of the Rev. Martin Luther King: He was "an Uncle Ben with a degree, a Bill Bailey who came home-and turned the home upside down. In him, they saw their niggers turning a calm new face of power on them." He described...
...Bailey also announced the formation of a black studies institute in Roxbury to be known as Malcolm X University. Throughout the sit-in, a banner had proclaimed Ford Hall to be Malcolm X University...