Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subjects: the fiction writer's need to acknowledge the deceitful nature of his craft, and the political activist's need to convince himself that his ideology is the only truth. The tragedy of Alejandro Mayta is that the give-and-take of public affairs is too perplexing for his blind faith. Like the narrator, he cannot escape the comic ironies that respect no certitudes. When free as an Andean condor, Mayta is a dedicated Communist. Imprisoned, he is a revolutionary whose zeal leads to reforming the convicts' commissary and a modest career in capitalism...
Rough for Theatre I etches out the unexpected meeting of a blind beggar and a wheelchair-bound cripple. While many of Beckett's plays are about "endings" that can't happen, Rough I is about an impossible beginning. After exchanging anecdotes about the miserableness of their lives, the two principal characters realize that they might be able to live together and derive solace from each other's company as each has something that the other lacks. But the pride of the cripple (played by Eric Oleson) and the dreamy quality of beggar (Harold Langsam) render this plan unworkable...
Langsam does a splendid job as the blind man--particularly considering that the black sunglasses he wears deny him the full use of his eyes as a means of expression. Oleson portrays the cripple as an older man, with an old man's slightly confused temperament. These two work well together on stage, neither seems to want a piece of the other's limelight. The evolution of their relationship parallels that of many first meetings: they move through periods of curiosity, and then chumminess before realizing that they are fundamentally incompatible. As they move through these phases, Langsam and Oleson...
...most interesting thing about the study is that it is double-blind," another participant recalls. "One doctor knows what drug we've been given, but we don't know, and neither do the people monitoring us--so they don't know what to expect and can't influence our behavior...
Clearly, AIA considers students blind to bias and in danger of swallowing dogma. This premise, a rather pessimistic assessment, throws AIA into a contradictory position. In its inquisition of inaccurate professors, AIA relies on tips called in by student "reporters". AIA places sufficient confidence in its student reports to use them as a basis for questioning professors on their abilities and for publishing indictments. Apparently, these super-student "reporters" see through what is for others an impenetrable haze of liberal bias...