Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...churches openly ran the petition drives, distributed the political literature and raised the funds needed to bring out the public vote that revoked the rights of gays in those places. Unfortunately, America is currently besieged by an army of religious zealots who see the Government and the ballot box as instruments for enforcing church dogma. If the trend continues, we'll have Government-enforced religion and the end of a 200-year-old democratic tradition. It's time church and state were separate once again...
Plays: Loeb Experimental Theater--"The Happy Journey," by Thornton Wilder, and "Where the Cross is Made," by Eugene O'Neill. One act each, with some improvisation. 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. today and tomorrow, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Loeb Drama Center. Free; pick up tickets at Loeb box office between noon and 6 p.m. the day of the show...
...Jarvis, 75, the man behind Proposition 13, calls himself "a rugged bastard who's had his head kicked in a thousand times by the government." In a state known for its smooth-talking, image-conscious politicians, he is a gruff, rumpled throwback to Mencken's soap box demagogues. The face is bulldoggish, the figure dumpy, the voice a throaty croak. There are no silken buzz words in Jarvis' earthy speeches. In his repertory of epithets, Republicans are "the stupidest people in the world except for businessmen, who have a genius for stupidity"; the League of Women Voters...
...ghost train, the penny arcade -these small environments of illusion whose hold on the imagination, over the past 25 years, has been so drastically loosened by the encompassing phantoms of TV and movies. Westermann can imbue a model of a building, a little ship's hull or a box with extreme suspense: one peers through the glass at a scene that resembles the inverted world of the fun fair, but concentrated (and made epigrammatic) by its littleness. The box serves him as it served Joseph Cornell: as a diminutive theater in which anything can happen, whose proscenium marks...
...look: protected by their glass enclosures and crates, armed with hooks, hasps, locks and hinges, they take their stand as small fortresses of care and responsibility against an inimical world of non-art-ratty execution, sloppy thought. This point is neatly made by A Close Call, 1965. Inside the box, a wooden doll with an ermine's head reels backward to avoid a dagger that has penetrated the glass ceiling...