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This is theater of the prison cell, an unsparing, nerve-jarring mirror to the interior world of the convict. It is guided by the Geese Company, a remarkable troupe of nine young actors founded and led by a former University of Iowa drama teacher, John Bergman, 40. Since 1980 the actors have been crisscrossing the country in a rickety red-and-white bus, playing in penitentiaries and juvenile-detention centers, holding theatrical workshops and performing their largely improvised plays about prison life. One aim is to force prisoners to admit to themselves that criminal behavior is stupid and ugly...
Such are some of the bulletins to be gleaned from the second edition of the unabridged Random House Dictionary of the English Language. "A storehouse and mirror of the language," is how Editor in Chief Stuart Berg Flexner describes the new dictionary, and with its 315,000 entries, the twelve-pound volume amply lives up to the billing. Along with the publication, between 1972 and 1986, of four fat folios supplementing the Oxford English Dictionary, this is the most important dictionary venture since 1966, when Random House's first edition appeared...
...together. We actually have the same view of the question of stereotypes which is that the primary function--now, we may be wrong in this and stereotypes may do a great deal of harm--but that the primary function as a writer, as an artist, is to hold the mirror up to nature and to depict women and Black people as you perceive them, not how they should...
...decades ago when he announced that he didn't belong to an organized political party: he was a Democrat. A good bit of the population has something like that impression as well, to judge from an exceptionally broad and detailed poll conducted by Gallup for the Los Angeles Times Mirror Co. and published last week. On the whole, the 4,200 people polled were markedly favorable toward the party; 54% identified themselves as Democrats or leaning that way, vs. 46% Republicans or G.O.P. leaners...
...Stephen Robinson--master of William B. Castle Society, one of the five--said that the societies are "the mirror image of the houses at the College." He said, "They are groupings of students and teachers not so much for housing, but for academic purposes...