Word: gossett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white woman to see which combination will lure more customers to the box office. Two seasons ago, the lucky combination was The Owl and the Pussycat, juxtaposing an erudite white bookstore clerk and a hoydenish Negro prostitute. My Sweet Charlie pairs a highly articulate Negro lawyer (Louis Gossett) from the North and a slatternly white mushhead of 17 (Bonnie Bedelia). One after the other, they break into a Gulf Coast cottage in search of refuge. The girl, pregnant and unwed, has been thrown out by her father. The lawyer has killed a white man during a civil rights march...
...sparks of interaction that fly between proficient Actors Gossett and Bedelia camouflage the dearth of action in the play. Considering that the two hurl abuse at one another for minutes at a time, it is surprising that a playgoer ends the evening feeling that it has been spent with two decidedly likable people...
...Yiddish, and a pixyish, diminutive grandpa (Menasha Skulnik) is the hero of this "play with music" set in Johannesburg. This Zayda speaks three languages-Zulu Yiddish, English Yiddish, and Yiddish Yiddish. He has a black African friend and com panion, a tall, open-faced child of good nature (Louis Gossett), who strangely enough also speaks Yiddish a good deal of the time. Playgoers who know only English may feel a sneaking desire to hear their mother tongue, but that would be a questionable mercy when the dialogue runs to such dire profundities as: "Life isn't all roses...
RACE: THE HISTORY OF AN IDEA IN AMERICA, by Thomas F. Gossett. The author contends that racism would not have endured so long without the wholehearted support of intellectuals and leaders from Thomas Jefferson to Theodore Roosevelt...
Falling for Darwin. Racism was rare before the era of colonialism, writes Gossett. People enslaved and oppressed one another, but they seldom justified their action on racial grounds. But in the Victorian age, when white Europeans ruled colored races the world over, racial theories mushroomed. The favorite of these was Social Darwinism, which held that human races evolve like animal species and that the nonwhite races were at the bottom of the evolutionary scale...