Word: directors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school is probably the Peace Corps, which deliberately sets out to instill self-confidence and self-sufficiency in its volunteers. It demands performances that the trainee may not have suspected he had in him. "We may drop a person with almost no money in some community," says Robert MacAlister, director of staff training, "and tell him to hack it for three or four days. We try to get people to realize their potential The operating principle is basically that a person can do anything he believes he can do." No gauge exists to measure the effect of this principle...
Hester's dismissal of John F. Hatchett, 37, as director of N.Y.U.'s new Martin Luther King Jr. Afro-American Student Center, touched off student turbulence at the nation's second-largest private university (total enrollment: 41,130). Until now the school has been relatively calm, largely because of Hester's willingness to engage in tireless talks with students, anticipate their grievances and move to head them...
...Afro-American Center as a response to black-student feelings after King's murder. It was to be a place where black students could meet informally to get guidance on nonacademic problems and discuss black history and culture. Negro students had proposed Hatchett as director, and N.Y.U. approved without adequate checking...
...humble way," says Ronnie Davis, director of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, "to destroy the United States," That is the modest ambition of several groups of strolling players who consider themselves collectively to be proponents of "guerrilla theater," Performing on street corners or on flatbed trucks, earning their keep by pass-the-hat collections, these dramatic revolutionaries have but one purpose: to "radicalize" their audiences into action and rebellion, Recently, three of the best-known guerrilla organizations -the Mime Troupe, New York City's Bread and Puppet Theater and California's El Teatro Campesmo-gathered at San Francisco...
...dusty roads of California's San Joachin Valley for three years, giving artistic moral support to the strike of César Chávez's Mexican-American grape pickers. The players encourage a revivalist atmosphere of hand clapping and shouting. "We like to make noise," says Director Valdez, who studied drama at San Jose State College, "because society does not allow us to make noise." Like Valdez, most of the other guerrilla players are convinced that sooner or later they will all be heard...