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CASTRATED clergymen, ingratiating prostitutes, and lusty rebels: The Blacks has all these in its menagerie of characters. With endearing clumsiness and sententious didacticism, Jean Genet has written a clowncrie (clown show) as subtle as this production at the Loeb Drama Center is deft and forthright. The New African Company, in conjunction with the Theatre Company of Boston, offers on the Loeb mainstage (normally bereft of black performers) a panoply of gifted black actors and actresses, in a visual spectacle of remarkable exuberance...
...deft hands of Moore or Genovese, Marxian class analysis exposes strata of human experience that were not apparent to previous historians. But history is too rich and varied to yield its secrets to one method alone...
...York Times's Charlotte Curtis, whose typewriter can deliver deft malice, was also in the crowd. Next morning she published some ludicrous exchanges-which Bernstein denies-between the field marshal of the pig-baiters and the aesthetic doge of the Upper East Side...
...deft ploy to enlist Soviet support for negotiations, Brandt said that West German participation in the Soviet-sponsored European security conference would depend on progress toward the solution of Germany's internal problems. Brandt is well aware that the security conference, which Moscow wants to convene either late this year or early in 1971 to ratify Europe's existing borders, is a major goal of Soviet diplomacy. The Kremlin is so eager to hold the conference that Soviet officials said publicly last week that they would welcome American attendance. Previously, they had been lukewarm toward the idea...
Last summer Jimmy Breslin, a licensed sentimental tough-guy journalist, startled New York by running in the Democratic primary for the office of president of the city council on Norman Mailer's ticket. Now, running for the office of tough comic novelist, Breslin proves slightly more deft with bullets than he did with ballots...