Word: life
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think, to be take as acid annotations on either the myth they illustrate or the times which produced their referant images. Rather they serve to make unexpectedly immediate a story which it may seem has been literally told to death. Not so long ago, the armband had brief life in this town as the visible emblem of a curious sort of self-election. When the disciple in Jesus make their first appearance, wearing their armbands, both they and our strike that was gain a little in dignity...
...ahead. Together, they resemble both a juvenile gang and a disreputable pick-up football team. Separately, they evoke overtones: St. John (Lloyd Schwartz) suggests a veteran of the Sierra Maestra, while St. Matthew (Michael Dobson) has the face, though not the demeanor, of a Renaissance devotional subject brought to life--the broken image partially and unexpectedly restored. Both consume much of their time on stage copying the utterances of Jesus (Andreas Teuber) into pocket notebooks...
...were driving through the South during the past week, I could taste the glory and respectability of the old civil rights days. Parents, teachers, ministers lauded us for going down there. Life magazine spoke of heroism. When we were murdered by police, the vast majority of adults in this country turned purple with unspeakable outrage. They loved us then. And now? In our latest adventure they brought the police on us themselves...
...Civil Rights Movement benefited more the northerners involved than it uplifted oppressed Negroes (as they were called). Very little of southern life was changed in return for the vast amount of energy the crusaders put into getting there. Imagine how much money the tens of thousands of people who came down for the Selma march in 1965 spent on gasoline, motel rooms, airplane tickets, restaurants. Millions of dollars, and the cops got the firehoses out as soon as they left...
...empathy towards the whores and fags because they are oppressed people. Authorities of various badges are always trying to stamp them out and they just want to live their own lives. The worst thing is when other people try to tell you how to live your life...