Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suspicious. And it's going to get worse. I sympathize with the black militants but this is a harmful phenomenon; it is both destructive and polarizing. It's a reflection of what's going on now, a reflection of the militancy of society as a whole. At this moment we're fighting a holding action...
Harvard had only five minutes before the game to warm up because the bus never arrived to take the players from the motel to the field. Private cars were obtained at the last moment. "We were rubber legs for the first quarter," Coach Bruce Munro said, "but we started playing better as the game went...
...assault which soprano Donna Newman made on the sacred coloratura aria Laudate Dominum: all the notes were there, too many of them flat, all of them invested with a Donizettian apocalyptic bravura, Mozart may have been only one year away from great operatic achievement in Idomeneo, but at the moment he was still close by the altar. Miss Curtis seemed intimidated by this Salome-like display but still bettered her prosaic performance in the Schutz. The two male soloists sang adequately, Robert Gartside's illustrative facial antics notwithstanding. I wished for vastly superior pronunciation from everyone concerned. The highlight...
...fires it into the air. This quick thinking seems a bit too quick, for my money. The three black boys then run out, and, just as Paul gets to the door to escape, a cop enters. Now how could this cop walk in at precisely that moment and fail to grab or shoot at (since this is a liberal play where cops should shoot rashly) any of the other culprits who just streamed out into the street? Don't ask me; I'm just calling...
Perhaps Sligar and Son wouldn't seem so bad, if it didn't try to pass itself off as a slice of ghetto life, circa 1967. But this is what it does, from the language to Debbie Waroff's fine naturalistic set. Not for a moment does the playwright convince us that he knows what he is talking about. (Hardly does the play begin when he shows us a hippie reading that revolutionary tract Black Like Me.) The playwright who wanted so much to give his work the sound of Stokely Carmichael gave us the sound of a foul-mouthed...