Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monsters with Badges. The Reddin blueprint pays attention to the young?rather self-consciously. Fourteen officers, each known as "Policeman Bill," are assigned to the city schools' first, second and third grades, where they tell children about the policeman's job. It all sounds a little cloying. Even so, before one "Policeman Bill's" visit, a survey showed, ghetto children portrayed cops as monsters with whips and flashing silver badges. After he left, they scrawled kindly father figures. To woo teenagers, almost always the troublemakers in ghetto disturbances, the L.A.P.D. has experimentally hired twelve youths for help on such minor...
...decked out in loincloth and wearing the plain brass Montagnard bracelets that indicate blood brotherhood, attending a village party or a wedding as an honored guest. Though the Americans are a familiar sight in many villages by now (their periodic patrols usually include medics, who treat the villagers), the children always look in awe and delight at the foreign giants, occasionally sneaking up to touch with wonder a hairy...
Although Shaw wrote Androcles as a children's fable, he intended it to have allegorical significance. "My martyrs," he said, "are the martyrs of all time, and my persecutors the persecutors of all time." When he came to add his Postscript in 1915, he stated: "The most striking aspect of the play at this moment is the terrible topicality given it by the war.... We see that even among men who make a profession of religion the great majority are as Martian as the majority of their congregations." Comedy or no, Androcles would once again, I think, have...
...play itself and its current production aside, there are two further matters that may be of interest. it is well known that Shaw was fond of supplying prose prefaces to his plays. Even though Androcles was a short play aimed at children, Shaw considered it important enough to merit the longest preface he ever wrote, running to a hundred pages...
...That my children may flourish...