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...powerful and thought-provoking drama. Examples of homosexuality or suicide come to mind--problems we can empathize with although they don't necessarily touch our lives directly. The case of bigotry, however, stirs emotions by touching a deeper nerve that is all too familiar to many people. In MASTER HAROLD..and the boys Athol Fugard forces us to probe not only the problem, but also our own psyches...
...drama opens with Sam and Willie, two middle-aged Black servants, cleaning up the teahouse owned by Harold's family. They are soon joined by teen-aged Master Harold, returning from school. Having spent time with these men since he was a child. "Hally" banters with them as friends, discussing the details of his morning. Styling himself as a typical liberal egalitarian student, he laments that "It's a bloody awful world when you think of it, what people do to each other...Where's progress? Every age has got its social reformer." Sam, the more intelligent and articulate...
...sentence. Sam epitomizes Fugard's profound irony: Master Harold, insecure and ashamed of his situation, is pitied by his Black servant, who in turn, despite his position, retains pride and human dignity...
...restrained Sam, fully aware that he, not Hal, has the more valuable lessons to impart. While there is a disturbing lack of tension when Sam first debies Hal's demand for proper respect, the climatic strength builds up quickly to Mokse's resigned yet underfeated pronunciation "Yes, sir, Master Harold...
...University's unprecedented application of the regents bylaws against sexual harassment began last October when Michigan President Harold Shapiro asked a key faculty committee--the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA)--to investigate allegations about the professor's misconduct...