Word: cooperized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although the law firm's alleged connections with the South African regime caused the demonstration, radical students are critical of the entire recruiting program. Robyn Cooper, IL, treasurer of the Student Bar Association and an active member of the radical group, complained about the program stating that "the recruiters never respond to your questions, never tell you anything about the firm's policies...
...Inner Sanctum, is a newcomer's introduction to Manhattan's latest and most curious experiment in public entertainment-a theater without a stage show, a cabaret without food or liquor, a party without an occasion. To its proprietor, a 25-year-old former talent agent named Ruflfin Cooper, Cerebrum is "an electronic studio of participation." Others have called it a "psychedelic playpen" and a "McLuhan geisha house." However defined-and perhaps it can't be-Cerebrum is an experience...
What happens then? Nothing, anything, everything. "We are trying to overturn every entertainment convention-the 'sit here,' the 'look that way,' the 'dance over here,' " explains Cooper. The result is frankly freaky. On one platform, a bearded man lies supine, eyes staring, engrossed in the melange of sound effects and music-ranging from Mozart to the Mothers of Invention-that is pouring through his headphones. On another, a girl guest performs a barefoot ballet, delighting in the swirl of the toga around her legs. Off in a corner, a couple engages in mild petting...
...century melodrama is presented all but dead-pan by actors nearly as immobile as the lectern-bound participants in a dramatic reading. Having abandoned all but the most incidental attempts to give character to his leads or to fortify the humor of the text with sight gags, Paul G. Cooper reduces himself from a director to a variety of quartermaster. His sole purpose and accomplishment is to deliver the proper number of actors to any part of the stage which will accommodate them, in time for the musical numbers. No 18th-century or war could have been as staid...
...Cooper's abdication is all the more disastrous because rapid changes of character are the essence of the play; for they parody the mechanics of melodrama while they suggest often-embarrassing affinities between a figure's old pose and his new one. Of the male leads only Stuart Rubinow displays the emotional range necessary to do justice to the hectic script. His Sir Despard Murgatroyd is first exuberantly wicked as the bad baronet who pays for his sins by contributing to the Church. Several abrupt turns of the plot later and on the right side...