Word: egalitarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only the first and last elements have the potential to be affected by co-ed casting; dramatic transvestism could be maintained (and turned to good use) by full or partial cross-casting, and the sexual humor may actually be increased. Egalitarian casting would be the first step towards the elimination of homophobia, sexism and racism from the scripts...
...Even if egalitarian casting should result in the withdrawal of alumni funds, this is a sacrifice which must be made to preserve our theater community and the art we together pursue. If the HPT has ceased to serve, or works against, the needs of current students, then it must be reformed. Conversations with undergraduate actresses have strengthened my belief in this, as well as the fact that a feminist review went up against the Pudding last year and that "Guys and Dolls" has readmitted women to the Pudding stage after a decade's absence...
...coolness toward the Undergraduate Council candidates and other potential campus superstars, then, may stem more from confusion than pettiness. Rather than trying to sort out a campus-wide pecking order, we have chosen a bland but egalitarian alternative: A thousand flowers may bloom, but they shouldn't expect any special treatment because of it. The council elections, important though they may be, try to get us to deviate from this egalitarian solution. It is not surprising then that they should be met with an indifference often laced with hostility...
...World War, society--consumed by the nature versus nurture effects on behavior--came up on the side of nurture, believing that personality was shaped by the environment. Anything related to genetics sounded disarmingly like eugenics and Hitler's notion of racial superiority. And so society welcomed psychotherapy, with its egalitarian tenet that we are all "brothers" whose personalities are shaped (or misshaped) by our surroundings. As Dolnick observes, "Level-headed men and women occasionally succumb to giddy excitement over the stock market or the million dollar prize." Or psychoanalysis...
...power of academic perks has not goneunnoticed at Harvard--in fact it is recognized bya different kind of "star system" ignored inrhetoric about egalitarian salaries...