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...Tyrone Guthrie, who inspired the founding of the Minneapolis theater named for him and served as its first artistic director, was a man of imposing stature and equally imposing ideals. His very first production, Hamlet, in 1963, gave the theater its credo-to strive for excellence in the classics. His immediate successors, Douglas Campbell and Michael Langham, also British, helped to make the Guthrie a kind of flagship of the U.S. regional theater movement. In recent years that image has been tarnished, but the choice of Liviu Ciulei (pronounced Leave-you Chew-lay) promises to burnish it again. A Rumanian...
Teddy Roosevelt has become a kind of national myth, a Charles Atlas of the body and soul who proved the American credo: a man can make himself anything he wants to be. But McCullough argues that Teddy's childhood asthma was at least partly the psychosomatic complaint of a boy suffocated by the burden of overachievement...
Indeed, the inside jokes and the conviviality of the production speak for its intimate appeal to its audience. A credo emerges that seems to say, "Our music might be bland and our acting may not be stellar, but we still think we're some of the most important people of our generation." The show's program lists the setting as an obscure Eastern law school, but the fact that it takes place at Harvard has a lot to do with this attitude. The vast majority of the people in this country only know Harvard as the Law School...
CANDIDATE AND PRESIDENT Reagan both placed heavy emphasis on "realism." NO more ambitious social programs, he vowed; "accepting the world as it is" was to be the administration's international credo. But to in his first major speech on the economy and in his advisers' subsequent specific additions to it, the president has placed his faith in an untested and highly speculative course of action that could very well worsen the economic "mess" he wants so desperately to clean...
Instead, some members of the society embrace the credo of the Reverend Herbert Daughtry, the pastor of Miller's Church in New York City. Daughtry represents an unsystematic synthesis of conservative Christian theology, Black culture and radical economics. Viewing the practice of theology as emancipatory politics, the Pentecostal minister calls for Blacks to unite progressive forces to challenge the present profit-motive emphasis of the country. He likens present-day Black unrest and struggles to that of major Biblical characters who fought against injustice; according to Daughtry such a challenge is, in fact, the will of God. "In the West...