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...children put on plays about heroic workers. Mao's China? A Soviet youth Komsomol? No, Santa Barbara, Calif. Situated in a rundown redwood ranch house nestled among the scrub oaks and laurels in the hills above the city, a unique camp run by those indefatigable activists Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda opened this summer for 150 youngsters from...
...Treat to Beat Your Feet on the Mississippi Mud," they learn union songs. Even traditional camp activities-sports, crafts, horseback riding-are pursued with a radical ideology in mind. "Swimming cannot be separated from the larger issues of society-the role of youth and the idea of competition," harrumphs Hayden. Chimes in Fonda, recalling the "authoritarian" camps of her youth: "We are interested in perfecting skills, not just in being No. 1." The Hayden/Fonda camp is "the better world," the counselors exhort their charges, because "you are going to make it better...
Laser Magic--Future City. Cool if you're in the mood, or can get yourself in the mood for a laser son et lumiere spectacular. Hayden Planetarium, Museum of Science, Friday at 9:30, 10:45, Saturday...
...there is something more to her use of clay than the immediacy and malleability of the raw material. As the show's guest curator, Hayden Herrera, points out in her warmly sympathetic catalogue essay, clay is "the oldest material for art and an emphatically primitive, even primal substance." (The first sculpture of a man, as every reader of Genesis knows, was made from clay when God modeled Adam.) Clay is earth, and Frank's figures of sprawling nudes and entwined lovers, tenderly dislocated, are clearly meant to be seen as emanations of the earth, concretions of place and appetite...
...Reagan declared that Americans should "never again" go to war "unless we intend to win." Magicians and stand-up comics have sought to amuse. A press release has been circulated announcing that California Governor Jerry Brown will get the "Benedict Arnold Citizenship Award" for appointing ex-antiwar Activist Tom Hayden to the state's new solar energy panel. And now Tony Bennett is closing the show with a sad, silky version of Autumn Leaves. Off to the side, watching them, one begins to sense in some measure what they have endured, and still endure. They perfectly illustrate some lines...