Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roger Planchon directs one of the leading companies of France during its visit to the Vivian Beaumont Theater for the Lincoln Center Festival '68. Dumas Pere's The Three Musketeers and two Molière classics, George Dandin and Tartuffe, will be playing through July...
ATELJE 212, the experimental studio company of Belgrade, is the second troupe in the Lincoln Center Festival. Under the direction of Mira Trailović, the Yugoslavs will present four plays in Serbo-Croatian, with earphones providing instant English translation. Aleksandar Popović's Bora, the Tailor, Alfred Jarry's King Ubu, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Roger Vitrac's Victor or the Children Take Over will run in repertory in the Forum Theater through July...
...surface similarities were striking. Five hundred buses converged on the muggy capital. A vast crowd-half white, half black-marched from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. Placards identified them as "Sisters of Watts" and "Concerned Citizens from Slippery Rock"; costumes identified them as Indians and Mexican-Americans, hippies and middle-class citizens of all shades. Young people waded thigh-deep in the Mall's giant reflecting pool, and families sprawled on the grass for picnics of fried chicken, chitlins and all manner of exotic salads. Even the numbing, five-hour drone of songs (four), speeches...
...Permit from Sod. "Listen, America," said Sterling Tucker, the march's coordinator, in an emotional address before the giant, brooding figure of Lincoln. "Hear our anguished cries. We are admitting that we are poor. But we are also giving warning. We will not remain poor. We will not remain depressed, repressed or oppressed." Added Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League: "This may be the last march which is non violent and which brings blacks and whites together. The nation and the Congress must listen to us now before it is too late-before the prophets...
...Ralph Abernathy, who has bumbled in his efforts to lead the campaign begun by Mrs. King's husband, talked for 65 minutes. He did not much care, he cried, whether the Government renewed its permit for Resurrection City, the poor people's waterlogged campsite by the Lincoln Memorial. "I received my permit a long time ago," said Abernathy, "from God Almighty," and he vowed that the poor would stay in Washington "until justice rolls out of the halls of Congress and righteousness falls from the Administration...