Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...charged with one of society's toughest responsibilities. As the caretaker of doomed criminals, his job requires him to grapple with death and justice on a daily basis, precepts that are often philosophically opposed. He suffers everything that a normal man suffers - pangs of conscience, doubts in the human capacity for good, and the occasional urinary tract infection. (When he scrambles into the bathroom, doubled over and grimacing at the excruciating effort of relieving himself - well, the audience feels his pain.) Duncan, in his breakout role (after several supporting roles in films like Armageddon), succeeds in winning over the sympathies...
This is a deeply worrying situation. Why do the more senior, and one would imagine wiser, members of the Phoenix club feel that this is appropriate treatment of animals? Would they feel as comfortable treating a human child in this way? Presumably not. But stop and think for a moment why a child would never be treated in this fashion, whereas there is little concern about the well-being of chickens. Perhaps the Phoenix club seniors feel that chickens are like the caricatures in a Gary Larson cartoon--silly beasts doing silly things. If so, why not do what...
...ambiguity. The space in the Loeb Ex space is incredibly intimate and close to the audience, yet the careful use of grays and silvers by Glenn Reisch '00 creates a sense of sterility. Hanging from the ceiling are square, metal mobiles with twisted coils, contributing to the sensation that human feeling can only be repressed for so long, just as the metal coils may snap at any time. Throughout the show, the set remains a reconfiguration of five sliver boxes reminiscent of the inside of a combustion engine, a few gray and silver wood planks and a few sparse props...
...being the last, and we take care not to treat any as "normal." Firefighters are not action movie heroes, throwing ourselves indiscriminately into walls of advancing flame. We respect each fire, know its force and know when it is time to retreat. Occasionally we miscalculate, a flaw of our human nature, and that sometimes means fire will claim a victim. When we lose brothers to fire, we all realize that any one of us could have fallen just as easily, and then we renew our vows to fight fire as safely...
Noguera has also been a member of the U.S. Public Health Service Centers for Disease Control Taskforce on Youth Violence and won a Wellness Foundation award for research on youth violence in 1995. He has also served as chair of the Committee on Ethics in Research and Human Rights for the American Educational Research Association...