Word: glas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After rejecting several offers of funds for a scholarship to benefit gay students, Stanford University two weeks ago accepted gifts to-talling $2040 solicited by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance at Stanford (GLAS) to establish a scholarship for a male medical student who has shown a commitment to serving the gay community...
...university rejected the previous scholarship offer, a $500 grant donated by Dr. Robert Ragland, because "it stipulated that the recipient had to be openly gay." The GLAS scholarship only asks that "preference" be given to a student who is committed to serving the gay community...
...community. We didn't feel that should reflect Stanford University's position in this view. We wanted to come up with a scholarship that would meet their reasonable objections to the Ragland scholarship and see that would be acceptable," said graduate student Doug Bemard a member of the GLAS steering committee...
Into this quiet disarray bursts Randall (Jake Lamar), a schizophrenic, self-proclaimed "young gentleman of color" (this is set in 1961); an impossibly jive, cool dude who proceeds to play a tense game of thrust and parry with Mr. Glas, the store-owner, (David Reiffel). As the two are gradually getting a feel for one another, in bursts a young Jewish girl (everyone seems to burst into Slow Dance) on her way to have an abortion and about to faint...
...OTHER ACTORS, though facing lesser challenges, capture almost as high a pitch of intensity. The vaguely Old World accent of Mr. Glas, at first simply a deadpan foil for Randall's wit, soon begins to play vigorously against him with ironic understatement. Reiffel plays the role with all the control that it demands, sharing in the sense of rapid-fire, back-and-forth timing that make Glas's exchanges with Randall--whether dramatic or humorous--come off so well. The control holds up when it is most needed, at the play's conclusion, when Glas reveals much about his past...