Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When my high school government class was visited last year by a young police officer, I looked with skepticism on the idea of his communicating anything to a group of intelligent, liberal-minded, middle-class students. But after the first awkward exchanges, my initial impression softened, for here was no hardened, authoritarian, put-'em-in-their-place cop but rather someone who thought, acted, and talked on our level. We fell into easy discussion and learned not only what he did as a cop but also why he was doing it and how it felt to be doing...
...final vote, which was taken separately by job category, every group voted to reject. But the vote was close among the maids while it was almost unanimous among the janitors...
...group of college newspaper editors will be putting out a daily newspaper in Chicago during the week of the Democratic Convention...
Director Laurence Senelick, Harvard's no. 2 expert on Restoration drama, must be credited with giving his group a sound grounding in Restoration style, because during that segment they managed not only to act funnily within the flitty Restoration method, but also to satirize conventions of Restoration theatre and mores, even to the point of improvising gossip about how Lady Carlisle ate her turnip. And Shakespeare got his due, as one would expect, given a grave on a putting green. Ken Tigar, possibly the quickest witted of this quick crew, finally declaimed "come, my trusty nine iron" as he plunged...
...Proposition is something more extraordinary than a group of funnymen feeding sharp lines to one another. Stand-up comedians bring in the laughs and with them, the audiences by asking that they be laughed at, or that the audience laugh at what they say. But The Proposition is a dialogue of laughter in which the audience is the silent partner which laughs with the troupe. You won't love them; you'll fall in love with them...