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...trial of all political activism in this country started with the trials of the Black Panthers." French playwright Jean Genet told an overflow crowd at M.I.T.'s Student Union last night...
...Genet was originally scheduled to speak in the M.I.T. student center last night, but was reportedly too exhausted by the pace of his American tour, which began last Saturday, to make the appearance. About 700 people squeezed into the center's Lordell dining room and waited for half an hour before an unidentified Panther announced the cancellation of the program...
French poet and novelist Jean Genet, who is touring the United States to express his solidarity with the Black Panther Party, will appear at M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium tonight at 7 p.m. Genet, whose controversial play The Blacks recently ran at the Lobe, will speak on a panel with local Panther spokesmen about black liberation and its relation to world revolution...
...greatest strength of surreal "anti-theater" is, in point of fact, intensely theatrical: visual images that slice faster than pain can follow to the deepest resources of the imagination. No one else's emblems of the irrational at the core of man-not Jean Genet's black white Negroes, not Samuel Beckett's ashcans, not even Jerzy Grotowski's Holy Auschwitz-are quicker or more deadly than Eugene lonesco's best: when he bothers to aim, he can knock the cigarette from one's lips at 40 paces. As Death and the nun came...
...quiet irony, as when she observes that whatever the rhetoric of the black militants, white supremacy has yet to see its first martyr. Her criticism is no less saline. Neither the Grand Existentialist nor his angel manque can ever be the same after this Adlerian analysis: Sartre "allows Genet only the leap of accepting his destiny, of willing what is in fact the case. And to will what is the case is the essence of a staid Conservative position, so that Genet, when Sartre gets through with him, is not a rebel but a bureaucrat, doing the job Fate...