Word: carlsen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Calvin Jefferson is a black college student with a B average, reading skills arrested at the fifth-grade level and an anguished, angry awareness that the false hopes raised in him by the educational policy from which this play takes its title are lies. Ginny Carlsen is a white college teacher reduced to showing students how to project an educated image for personnel directors, but prevented from providing substantial learning to sustain their careers or their lives. Playwright Shirley Lauro also has a second meaning in mind for her title, as she crudely but forcefully maneuvers her principal characters toward...
...planes do tend to shape their owners' lifestyle, though. "When your husband asks you out to dinner," says Jan Carlsen, a resident of Cameron Airpark, "you don't have to go to the local Taco Bell; you can go to the Carson City Taco Bell." By plane it would be about a half-hour hop; by car, more than two hours, some of it over difficult mountain roads...
Which is true enough, one has to admit--a young urban male is pretty hard-up for revolution these days. Carlsen then goes on to talk about the new Western fashion sensibility, a new "heroic" look that the fashion safari epitomizes, "It is," he says, "a massive return to romantic values." He's probably right. You have to find romance somewhere. The alternative is simply to dreadful...