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...BLACKS is a play much more difficult to describe than to comprehend visually: especially since John Thornton's set design and Lewis Rampino's costumes manage to establish with ruthless clarity the interrelationship (emotional, political, sexual) of this curious pastiche of characters. The Blacks-the suppressed minority, whether sexual deviants, freethinking criminals, disgruntled lackeys-all consort to overthrow the Establishment, symbolized by the Queen, the Judge and the Governor, perched high aloft the stage on a wooden scaffold, At center stage sits the draped coffin of a white woman, supposedly massacred by the Blacks...
...arrest. At sessions that often turn into group therapy, the classes discuss the summaries written by past students. Stewart has concluded that the D.W.I, offender is generally an individual under pressure, anxious about financial or domestic troubles. He is so wrapped up in his own worries that he cannot comprehend the reasons for society's concern with drunken driving. Because of this picture, Stewart's approach now includes more counseling. "Sympathy, insight and patience," he says, "are the keys to working with a person in this state of mind." So far, the project has been an impressive success...
Even if talks are resumed, U.S. officials do not expect any immediate progress. For one thing, the Chinese Communists demand, as a precondition for even the smallest agreement, that the U.S. abandon the Nationalist government on Taiwan. Also, few Westerners comprehend how far Mao's China will go to protect its ideological purity. In the minds of Chinese leaders, cultural exchanges and the arrival of Western journalists would only serve to sully the haven of unadulterated Communism. In fact, the most that the U.S. could hope for in the near future would be an agreement to hold regular discussions...
...have the answers, somehow solve all the urgent and increasingly complex moral, technological and political issues that face society. Some say that the task is impossible and simply dismiss it; others have decided, like Hollander, that the only answer is broadly based training that equips a churchman to comprehend the clamorous needs of today's world. Like their counterparts in secular universities, seminarians do not always recommend the wisest changes for the long run; they often want to discard required courses like Hebrew and Greek without realizing that the conservative seminaries, which are preserving the languages, would thus acquire...
During the second stage, the child thinks about everything in terms of his own activities; he believes that the moon follows him around, or that dreams fly in through his window when he goes to bed. Erroneous though these ideas are, they help the child comprehend that actions have causes. In this period, the child is not egocentric by choice. Parents should understand, says the University of Rochester's David Elkind, a leading Piaget scholar, that intellectual immaturity and not moral perversity is the reason why a preschooler continues to pester his mother even after she plainly tells...