Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hester tried to placate the critics. He got former U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg and Federal Judge Constance Baker Motley, N.Y.U.'s first Negro trustee, to review the case, and they endorsed his decision to retain Hatchett. Hester insisted that Hatchett was "not prejudiced against Jews as an ethnic group" but was attacking the educational Establishment of the schools-an argument that Jewish groups thought too ingenuous...
...performers-as with most of the guerrilla troupes, few have had any previous professional experience-specialized in silent, Chaplinesque skits. Despite its name, the troupe has since broken loudly into song and speech; and its repertory, performed around the country, includes Renaissance commedia dell'arte, Moliere farces and group-created modern morality plays with so much bawdry that the actors have been arrested by local authorities for obscenity. At the festival, the troupe's musicians, who call themselves the "Gorilla Band," offered a blatantly sardonic, nose-thumbing rendition of favorite American songs like Yankee-Doodle The plays included...
...where, since receiving a grant two years ago, they run workshops in which ghetto children can make puppets. Before each performance, the company tears fresh loaves of pumpernickel into bits and passes them through the audience-an artistic communion that both engages the viewers' participation and sets the group's humanistic tone. "All of our shows are for good and against evil," insists Schumann. They are played in stark terms. In Reiteration, the actors wear grotesque masks; one wears a skull, another a gas mask, others are in oriental or black face, While Schumann announces each scene...
Founded 18 months ago on the site of a former hot-springs resort, the stone-and-redwood monastery compound at Tassajara was purchased for $300,000 by a group of wealthy Zen enthusiasts. There is a Japanese roshi, or Zen master, Shunryu Suzuki, 65, who gives guidance in meditation. The American director of the monastery, Richard Baker, 32, is a Berkeley graduate who specialized in Oriental studies. His 60 fulltime novices include college students-for some reason, most come from Minnesota and Texas-professors, a psychiatrist, an importer, a bookshop owner and a former naval commander. There is also...
...American Medical Association has been warring against questionable treatment ever since the group was founded in 1847. Yet the battle is endless and so far from being won that this month the A.M.A. convened what it called a national conference on quackery in Chicago.* The A.M.A.'s president-elect, Manhattan's Dr. Gerald D. Dorman, sadly reported that if today's Americans cannot find the quacks they want in the U.S., they will go halfway around the world for them...