Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whorehouses, the rooftops and benches, the stores and moviehouses, the colors of the fruits and bowers. The Paris street people-the vagabonds drunkards, and sluts-appear frequently. Paris is seen from inside a pissoir one of Miller's favorite institutions. "To relieve the bladder is one of the great human joys...
Sohn was a participant in the 1945 San Francisco Conference that established the United Nations, and later served in a variety of consulting and legal positions in the U.N. In 1965. he was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Human Rights of the President's National Citizens Commission for International Cooperation...
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, people who write reviews are human beings. Like anybody else in the audience, they can come to the theatre with an upset stomach or a hangover. They can be happy or depressed or somewhere in between. And because critics actually can be any of these things, their job is a lot harder than many people think. It is not always easy for a reviewer to clear his head of pre-curtain-time emotions and look objectively at what's doing on the stage...
...essay, "Towards a Poor Theatre," Grotowski calls for a theatre devoid of theatrical apparatus and full of human contact. That means the replacement of sets, costumes, lighting, and make-up with a total emphasis on "the actor-spectator relationship of perpetual, direct, live' communion." Grotowski wants, of all things, to give the theatrical experience back to the people who are actually in the theatre when the performance takes place-that is, the actors and the audience, period. In such a "Pour Theatre." not only will the designers and stagehands be eliminated, but so will the playwright. Grotowski sees all theatrical...
...real power, we of draft age are no more impotent than we were before. But somehow the new medium that they have chosen, this Surreal Raffle, is absurdly funny even as it is degrading. It is a parody that the Proposition might offer of government's evaluation of human life...