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...Brook prefers to describe it as a search for the essence, a stripping away of conventional trappings. He has turned the apron of the stage at Manhattan's Vivian Beaumont Theater into a patch of dust beneath hot, glaring lights, and on it he has traced the bleak geometry of the characters' fates quite vividly...
...their jobs may be wiped out. The company is expected to spend about $36 million for job-displacement training and career-development classes in technical, sales, clerical and other basic skills that will enable union members to broaden their career horizons and enrich their lives. Says C.W.A. Official Dina Beaumont: "We want members involved in planning their careers...
...Beaumont and other C.W.A. people concede that employees will be trained for jobs not only inside Bell but elsewhere in U.S. industry, marking one of the first times in labor history that a company has agreed to give people broad skills for careers instead of techniques for specific tasks. Says Phillip DeLong, manager of media relations for A T & T: "We're not talking about job protection, but employment protection...
Fifty-three percent of the Bell operating companies' employees are women, who still tend to cluster in such jobs as operators and clerks; few have jobs as splicers or in other crafts. Says Beaumont: "That's because very few women receive any education in basic electronics and electricity. Guys got that in school. Most of us didn't." Women will now be encouraged to go into those fields and develop their skills...
Born in 1945, Alexander was raised in Texas swamp country-Beaumont, near the Louisiana border. One might not deduce that from his work but, with a little hindsight, the paintings suggest it. They have a marshy, embrangled look full of thickets of line and pools of darkness. Their peculiar sense of space (which looks incoherent in reproduction, but at full scale is not) is recognizable at once to anyone who has gone through swamp: no horizon to be seen, only a succession of angles that, when the eye pushes through them, disclose more tangles beyond. The light is murky. Such...