Word: downtrodden
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...game, the criminals use the lure of a cash prize for surviving. The dilemma of the victims is not ignored. Their uncertainty and hesitancy is won over by the chance of getting off the streets. The predations of the rich take many forms: an uncaring society ignores the downtrodden and then consumes them for sport...
Chicu Reddy, as Prospero's exploited slave, Caliban, would naturally dominate a production organized on these lines. For the opening few scenes, he looks like he will. He acts with presence and confidence, playing Caliban as the downtrodden but spirited revolutionary. But that interpretation just doesn't work. Caliban's situation strikes the viewer as poignant because, by our society's terms, he is only semi-human. To transform him into the streetwise troublemaker that Reddy portrays is to dodge that most pressing issue. Before the weaknesses in Reddy's Caliban become obvious, the director loses interest in his brainchild...
...nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson and confirmed by the Senate of the United States . . . not you); his insistence upon using the word Negro to identify an African American (though recently he had begun to use the term Afro-American); his deep and passionate sympathy for all downtrodden people; the uniqueness of his questioning of attorneys at oral argument (in a case involving the constitutionality of a regulation prohibiting people from sleeping in public parks, the Justice asked the Deputy Solicitor General whether he had ever been homeless...
...MUSICIANS AT THEIR BEST USE THEIR ART TO create a hyperspace of rhythm and verbal bravado, where anarchy reigns at times and society's downtrodden rise up. Savvy listeners understand that rap is simply dramatic musical theater, not a call to violence. Unfortunately, after rapper Ice Cube's concert in Seattle, hundreds of fans ignored the difference. During the concert the fire- breathing Cube whipped up the audience with raps describing racism, police violence and gunplay. As the show ended and the crowd of 1,400 streamed into the street, isolated fistfighting erupted into a general melee. At least five...
...worried, but I understand the background. I can imagine that if I were younger and saw what has happened to the Arab homeland, I might find myself part of this movement. With the enthusiasm of youth, I would judge things hastily. I would see that the Arabs are downtrodden, that their land is occupied, that the Israelis appear victorious. Therefore young people have come to the conclusion that Islam is their salvation. The majority ((of Arab leaders)) are aware of this reality, but they don't talk about it. Sadat visited me before he went to Jerusalem. I advised...