Word: jests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beau Jest Moving Theatre...
THEIR STYLE has been described as "new mime," "new vaudeville," and "a capella mime." But the Beau Jest troupe call what they do "Moving Theatre." And the troop takes the name seriously, constantly moving--around the stage and around New England. For just a little while longer, though, the troupe is staying put, in the intimate confines of the New Ehrlich theatre...
...long as it is entertaining, what's wrong with a positive energy seminar, anyway? The Beau Jest combination of jests and gestures should be seen before it moves again...
This week the uncommonly productive subject of that jest can claim authorship of his 39th book in 27 years, the first* of four projected volumes in a work titled Modern American Religion. Judging from the first installment, the series will become a standard account of the nation's variegated religious culture during the current century. The four volumes, the fruition of decades of research, may rank as the much honored Marty's most significant contribution to U.S. studies...
...microcosm of the divided soul of the party. As the man who runs, as he likes to put it, "the greatest state in the greatest nation in the only world we know," Cuomo believes that his mission is to meld old-fashioned compassion with fiscal common sense. In jest, he calls himself the founder of the Progressive Pragmatist Party. He is quick, however, to trumpet what would be its platform: a kind of frugal liberalism, conservatism with a human face. If this self-described progressive pragmatist can act as mediator between the Democratic Party's left wing, including Jesse Jackson...