Word: ground
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This fall, the Law School Forum was forced to relocate a speech by mayor of Philadelphia Wilson Goode after soot-covered Cambridge youths rolled on the ground and--in a non-too-subtle protest of Goode's bombing of a radical group's headquarters--called the mayor a Nazi murderer...
...know that when Mr. Coors arrives Wednesday to speak at the Science Center he will be prepared to tell some clever lies about his company and those who oppose its practices. But if Harvard students want to maintain possession of the moral high ground they earn by protesting such villainous characters, they will have to make sure that their protests do not get out of hand. In an open community it is simply unacceptable to curtail the freedom of speech of any speaker, unless he is trying to incite violence through his remarks...
...young warrior is asked his name and replies, "Lord Delamere." His parents had named him Lord Delamere. The visitor tears a page out of his notebook and walks 30 yards away and places the paper on the ground, weighed down by a stone. His lordship is asked to demonstrate his accuracy with a spear. Lord Delamere shrugs and stands and hurls his spear, impaling the blank page. The visitor asks to borrow the spear so that he might try. Alas, he does not straighten his arm, as in a javelin throw, but starts the motion somewhere behind his right...
...direction of the person who is the target of the spell. For help with childbirth, he drapes the skin of an eland on the woman -- the eland being much like the cow, which possesses magic powers. In order to bring rain, the laibon places a dead frog on the ground, belly up, with a charm upon it. Within 24 hours, before the frog decays, the rain will fall...
...been original and rewarding. He has no distinctive stylistic trademark other than a fertile imagination and a refreshingly practical understanding of the stage and stage practice. His one consistent method, common with auteur directors, has been to rely on classic texts. A playwright can't argue with a ground-breaking interpretation of his text when he's been dead for a century...