Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Playwright David Rabe's trilogy The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, Sticks and Bones and Streamers, explored military brutalizations in the Viet Nam era. This week in Manhattan Actor Michael Moriarty is opening in David Berry's play G.R. Point, an equally brutal work about men doing graves registration duty in Viet Nam. Its refrain: "The 'Nam hasn't got any heroes. Dead is dumb, and dead in the 'Nam is the dumbest...
...turning point came in the summer of 1969 in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, when 400 gays flooded the streets for several nights to protest police raids on the Stonewall Inn, a homosexual bar on Christopher Street. The anti-Viet Nam, civil rights and women's rights movements all helped galvanize gays into thinking that they, too, could make a claim on society for recognition of their basic rights and point of view. Since then, the gay rights movement has impressed the nation's consciousness strongly enough to gain an ironic tribute: the rise of an alarmed, organized and vehement opposition...
...with the Creative Music Studio, which was founded by Berger along with Ornette Coleman to provide alternatives in music education. The CMS headquarters in Woodstock, New York provides a focus for a Woodstock jazz community that is growing both in size and vitality. A two hour drive from downtown Manhattan, Woodstock is home for a stable of musicians that includes Berger and Jack DeJohnette, and the town has been a rest/retreat spot for scores of others. It shouldn't be too long before the influence of the CMS workshops, which have been led by, among many others, Anthony Braxton...
...novel Snow White and several short stories. He takes the fabeled meeting of Cortes and Montezuma and twists it, distorts it, makes it fresh. Among the stories, "Tales of the Swedish Army" relates a sudden meeting of the author and a unit of Swedish soldiers on maneuvers in lower Manhattan, an exercise of the imaginative virtuosity that has characterized Barthelme's style. And "The Abduction of the Seraglio," in the best of these stories, sparkles with Barthelme's wit and masterful stylistic control...
...terms of return on invested capital, the oil firms have been slightly below the par for U.S. industry. In 1978, according to a Chase Manhattan Bank study of 27 oil companies, they had an average return of 13.2%, compared with nearly 15% for all firms...