Word: leroi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Using the work of Leroi Jones for illustration, Davis said, "His plays have become rhetoric. Jones has changed his vocation." Speaking of Dutchman, he said, "Nothing [Jones] has done since then comes close to that explosive work...
Winthrop House said that its annual spring Arts Festival would be run in association with Afro and would feature black artists. Tentative guest artists included James Baldwin, Leroi Jones, Marian Anderson, and others...
...other hand, radicals can look to contemporary moral thinkers of various hues--Herbert Marcuse, R. D. Laing, Albert Camus, Leroi Jones--who level their sights at the attitudes rather than the content of the American historical picture, and explode the necessity as well as the desirability of such American traits as self-advancement, money-mania, and social indifference. Their complaints, taken at the aesthetic and philosophical levels, reach us through a different tradition than the complaints of historians, but they are more powerful for that fact, and, indeed, for their stark prescience, seem to need none of their Hegelian...
Though nearly all of the actors have come to the Atma as novices, the reviews indicate anything but amateurism. Lawrence Rubins and Robert Jones, the two mainstays outside of Samshak, directed four of the top twenty plays of 1968 chosen by Boston After Dark. (Leonard Melfi's Birdbath, LeRoi Jones' Slave and Dutchman, and Edward Albee's Death of Bessie Smith.) Samshak calls them the "two best directors in this town." They both came to the Atma as long-time friends of Samshak and have stayed for the entire two-year history...
...slave market," a phalanx of activists from the New Left suddenly seized control. Before most members knew what was happening, the staid old association found itself passing resolutions opposing the "illegal and imperial" Viet Nam war, counseling opposition to the draft and denouncing government repression of such writers as LeRoi Jones and Eldridge Cleaver. For good measure, the dissenters also voted to table a proposed new constitution...