Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heard of it in passing. A Black boy killed. An act of retribution: a Jewish man killed. New York. Crown Heights: yes, the crown, yes, the height of enmity between the races. I paid little heed, regarding it simply as another conflagration in the cauldron of American society where race, in all its surliness, burns the hottest in the belly of the pot, DuBois was right--the problem of the color line indeed...
There is was. Crown Heights in all its tragic display, the victims and the victimizers, but who was which (hardly a seam between them)? The thing I had heard about in passing was now alive, breathing, walking the stage, evolving--with each new face, into the terrible truth at its center. A dramatic gesture toward immortality, a dramatist's gesture toward immortality. An immortality of the pain and the grief. An immortality of the voices, the torn and urgent voices that vie in boundless cacophony. Voices to which the rest of us shut our ears to hear of only...
...judgments. Instead, she does what is essential to solving the conflict and easing the tension--she presents both sides wholly and honestly to show that there is no clear right or wrong in the situation. For Smith, preventing similar conflicts in the future requires understanding among the residents of Crown Heights...
Fires in the Mirror, Anna Deavere Smith's one-woman show at the American Repertory Theatre, provoked a wide range of responses. The A.R.T. organized three panels to consider the issues raised in the representation of the Crown Heights deaths. On October 8 (after the matinee), the panel will include Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair, Dept. of Afro American Studies; Hubert Jones, Dept. Dean of School of Social Work, Boston University; Charles Ogletree, professor of law, Harvard Law School; Henry Rosovsky, Geyser University Professor. On October 9, the panel will consist of Alan Dershowitz, professor of law; Florence Ladd, Director...
...which you were so generous with your characters," bringing "a profound empathy to each and every one." Nathan Glazer, professor of education and social structure, reflected on the ways in which the Black and Jewish communities were represented. He commented that the Lubavetch community, while very noticeable in Crown Heights, is statistically a small and thereby unrepresentative part of the larger Jewish community in New York--and about 50,000 out of a national Jewish community of five to six million. He suggested that a fuller spectrum of the Black community was represented, although Deavere Smith pointed out that...