Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal Magistrate Vincent Catoggio had another opinion. "I don't know where these people get the idea they have a constitutional right to strip naked and parade in front of other people," he said, then set bail on a man who had been seized in the nude at Jacob Riis Park beach in Queens...
...with a very difficult piece of material. Clifford Odets wrote this bit of social drama back in 1935, and its all about the drams and frustrations of the Depression. Morris Carnovsky, who starred in the play's original production, has come up to Cambridge to recreate the role of Jacob, and that alone is reason enough to see the show. The other performers complement Carnovsky's brilliant portrayal of the philosophic uncle, and director John Sherin manages to bring Odets's spirit back to life. Weekday shows begin at 8, tickets cost $4.95 tonight and tomorrow, $5.95 on Thursday...
...between her pregnant daughter and a hapless recent immigrant. Her relentless drive for upward mobility causes her to heartlessly disapprove of her son's love for a peniless orphan. Their struggles are played out with an important group of other stereotypical characters all used artfully by Odets. The grandfather Jacob counters Bessie's values with his untutored, untested, but deeply felt radicalism. Despite his own failure to act, he hopes to inspire his grandson Ralph to build a new world rather than achieve his individual desire for advancement and money. On the other side, Morty embodies his sister Bessie...
...accomplished cast brings life to every member of this large group of stock figures with their funny and sad cliche-laden speech. Taking the role of the ineffectual old radical whose one positive act is a negative sacrifice, Morris Carnovsky strikes just the perfect understated note of pathos as Jacob, the part he played almost forty years ago in the original Group Theater production. As the domineering Jewish mother with implacable bourgeois aspirations, Carol Gustafson succeeds as the dislikable antagonist Bessie Berger with a tongue and manner as commanding as any lower-middle class Jewish mother struggling for the good...
...today worry about and struggle only for security careers in what they perceive as a frightening economic environment, we can be inspired by the admirable Loeb portrayal of Ralph Berger's tentative growth and determination during the bottom of the Depression, "Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust," Jacob quotes Isaiah, "and the earth shall cast out the dead...