Word: blau
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Yerma means barren in Spanish, and the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater means barren in English. The latest fiasco produced by the team of Herbert Blau and Jules Irving is a work of the late Federico Garcia Lorca, a gifted poet but an inept dramatist. For two hours, without intermission, the heroine Yerma (Gloria Foster) yearns publicly and privately to have a baby. The playgoer comes out of this hot bathos convinced that this Spanish , town could certainly use an adoption agency...
Good for the Ego. Early reading has its defenders. Dr. Abram Blau, head of child psychiatry at Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital, contends that "teaching young children anything that enlarges their ego is good for them," and "any activity that demonstrates a mother's emotional interest in her child is very important for a three-year-old." Many experts also applaud the games, art, musical records and picture books that help prepare a child for school but do not pressure him to read...
Nonetheless, some experts question whether children from emotionally healthy homes would benefit much by earlier schooling. Dr. Abram Blau, head of child psychiatry at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, contends that "kids who are sent away from home before age five feel rejected." They also are generally too "self-interested" to either "socialize" or "pay attention to real learning," he argues. Superintendent Lester Ball of the Oak Park, Ill., schools believes that "the average suburban environment can be as good or better than a school" for a four-year...
...religion department. Universities deliberately avoid hiring propagandizers for a faith. "It's completely irrelevant to us whether a man is a good Christian or a good Protestant or a good atheist just so long as he is a good and competent scholar," says Columbia's Joseph Blau. Western Michigan has had a Jesuit priest teaching Hinduism and Buddhism, while at Wisconsin a course on the Reformation is taught by a Jew, another on the philosophy of religion by an avowed agnostic. Stanford's religion course on ecumenism is taught jointly by Presbyterian Robert McAfee Brown and Roman...
...without some pomaded hood appearing from a crevice to explain the finer points of Alienation and Epic Theatre. That David Wheeler and his Theatre Company of Boston have decided to do Brecht their own way is, in itself, refreshing. Describing his brilliant production of Galileo in San Francisco, Herbert Blau wrote, "In approaching Galileo quite differently -- after years of pondering Brechtian notions -- my trust is that to be irreverent is to be more faithful." Probably so, but Wheeler's approach is not so much irreverent as insipid...