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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...term in the Senate. She ran for public office because "this country is in a te rible mess in every area, and the times demand new leadership." After 21 years of volunteer service, she felt competent to provide that leadership. "Volunteer work is working with people. In a political context, is this unimportant?" she asks...
This is not to say that the Deans of Harvard College wake up every morning with fears of working class revolution on their minds. But these differences of ideology and interest become quite evident and very real in the context of a struggle, such as the Strike of last spring. In such a situation when the men who run the University are trying their hardest to feign an anti-war posture and pretend that they have a harmony of interests with the students, any group which continually points to the war-related activities of the University, and advocates fighting alliances...
...failing to portray the Negro as a matter of routine and in the context of the total society, the news media have, we believe, contributed to the black-white schism in this country. They have not communicated to the majority of their audience-which is white-a sense of the degradation, misery and hopelessness of living in the ghetto. They have not shown understanding or appreciation of-and thus have not communicated-a sense of Negro culture...
...table..."; Kolenkhov, the emigre ballet master, deadpans. "She is a great woman, the Grand Duchess. Her cousin was the Czar of Russia, and today she is waitress in Child's Restaurant. Columbus Circle." Unadulterated camp is screamingly funny just because it is so guileless. Humor is closely bound to context, and an amusing line in 1936 becomes a hilarious one in 1970, precisely because the time warp can kleig-light meanings only implicit in the original...
...improve during the summer Agassiz run). But the production is a 1title too cute, and some of the actors create dreadful characters that seem carved out of soap, so that finally the message of the play-a plea for leisure in a suicidal, capitalistic world-becomes lost in a context whose sophistication administers only a put-on frame of mind...