Word: grossberg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...David Grossberg Upland, Calif...
...performance is, for the most part, delightfully amateurish. After all, the Law School teaches a professionalism of a different kind. The only standout among this cast of legal eagles is Bruce Grossberg, as Irving the nerd. Yet, the company's two large chorus numbers display the sort of spirit and energy that might make us re-think the popular conception of the lawyer's personality...
...from the title Bertolt Brecht gave one of his poems: "700 Intellectuals Pray to an Oil Tank." It was a pessimistic movement. Nobody involved with Neue Sachlichkeit believed in the machine-utopias that were an article of faith among the romantics at the Bauhaus. When an artist like Carl Grossberg (1894-1940) painted factory installations, he gave them a deserted, haunting quality, as though some German De Chirico had been set loose in the Ruhr. De Chirico was the main prototype for the fantastic images of this wing of the German avantgarde; there was, for instance, a ready connection...