Word: creation
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...verse-speaking with increased physical stylization, to the total vocal and physical stylization demanded by the post-modernists (Brecht, Beckett, Handke). Along the way, students are gradually mixed into Yale Repertory productions, beginning as spear-carriers and moving up to understudy positions and major roles. Another innovation was the creation of two majors: Theater Management and Dramatic Criticism. The latter included courses in "Dramaturgy," the graduate acting as a built-in theater critic, hired by regional companies as a literary and artistic advisor...
That is not always easy. Carter's cuts have already stirred some Cabinet-level grumbling. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall warned, though in a rather subdued fashion, that the reductions should not fall too heavily on job-creation programs. He said that the Administration will have "to prove that putting people on unemployment and welfare is less inflationary than giving them jobs." Patricia Harris, the outspoken Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, sent a sharply worded memo to OMB saying that she could not live with the proposed cuts in her department. The White House was especially irked when the memo...
...Gaza "Strip" was created by the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. It was the only bit of Palestine that the Egyptian army could salvage after fighting ineffectively against the creation of the state of Israel. The Egyptians subsequently used the region as a base for raids into Israel. Those raids ceased after the 1956 war between Egypt and Israel, when Gamal Abdel Nasser agreed to the placement...
...quite a different plane is Last Wave Director Peter Weir's earlier Picnic at Hanging Rock. Though not scheduled for the New York festival, it is a haunting re-creation of a true incident in 19th century Australian history, in which some schoolgirls disappear from an outback outing, never to be seen again, and with no satisfactory explanation for their disappearance ever discovered. Weir creates an oppressive atmosphere, a compound of heat, isolation and sexual innuendo that is quite singular. His skill at wringing terror out of emptiness and silence, his sense of the fragility and smallness of Europeans cast...
Gilbert's Sir Joseph Porter is his great creation in Pinafore, the character everyone remembers. But the pompous First Lord of the Admiralty, tailed by his drone horde of matronly relatives, fussily insisting that officers and crew "refrain from language strong," should be a solid character nonetheless. He's the vehicle for Gilbert's satiric venom, and he should be just respectable enough for us to enjoy laughing at him. Jonathan A. Prince turns Porter into a lovable old Codger, who you'd help across the street or stage if you could stop cracking up for a moment. So much...