Word: getting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having learned at Daytop to come out from behind their images and let people get close, they were also able to open up and deliver themselves as characters with total honesty. I saw one actor in the Square on Saturday and was half surprised that he didn't say hello...
Addicts, of course, get arrested a lot. After puking in a cell going through "cold turkey" Augie Nigro got a choice between four years in jail and Daytop Village...
...straight, you're at Daytop now!" At Daytop Augie literally yells to his encounter group for help. No one comes running with a soft shoulder or a dose' of Methadone to help him out. The object is to get him to "make an investment," and the group wants to know "What are you gonna do for yourself Augie?" But at least this investment, once exacted, is guaranteed...
Confession humanizes and invalidates the image game they all played on the street, so that people can get close together. No matter whose tale is being told, all the players pantomime the story, react, peer, gasp or laugh, so the story teller seems still less alone...
Getchell has that article posted in the Yardlings' locker room and is not letting the squad forget that prediction. "B. U. will be out to get us this year, and we'll have to play exceptionally well to beat them," Getchell said...