Word: basics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SPITTING IMAGE. Some plays sound distinctly unappetizing in conception but prove surprisingly palatable in realization. For anyone who can abide the idea, this work about two homosexuals who have a baby provides a consistently amusing evening, nursing its basic joke with taste and felicity. Sam Waterston and Walter McGinn turn in accomplished performances as Daddy One and Daddy Two in what is probably the first homosexual play with a happy ending...
...such variations as Punch and Judy shows. The original comedia were performed by troupes of players --who traveled from town to town with their entertainment. Their plays were never the same, however. What were constant were the roles that each member of the troupe played and a few basic plots and themes: true love thwarted by a preposterous and often evil father, cunning servants who devise ingenious tricks and ruses, the soldier and the harlequin, etc. Each night, before the performance, the leader of the troupe would give his actors the plot twists for that night--with a few variations...
Firstly, the basic issue dealt with in our course is that of the distribution of income, wealth, and power within the United States, and between the U.S. and the Third Would. In dealing with income distribution, we emphasize the importance of educational institutions and their economic function in affecting income inequality. The editorial's suggestion that the issue of grading forms a particularly large part of the course in incorrect, although it is fair to say that our position on grading arose from discussion concerning the particular course lecture in which grading received some analytical attention...
...medical care, the poor and the black have always suffered the most. Before the government invented its patchwork medical insurance plans, the poor simply couldn't pay for decent care. And now, even with the advent of Medicare and Medicaid, coverage is usually not complete enough to meet basic medical needs...
...that kind of simplistic rationalization never comes up. The reason for the plan's economically-mixed clientele is far more subtle. All plans aimed entirely at the poor have a basic weakness: since all their money comes from the government, any cut off in the government fiscal supply will instantly kill the plan. Pollack adds that poor-only programs may become over-specialized. If they only treat sick poor people, they may lose touch with the real world of American medicine; their techniques will be fine for the ghetto, but they won't apply to the majority of the country...