Word: movements
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Doctorow's book itself is based on an invisible but firm set of rules. Characters appear and reappear, but they do so logically if not chronologically. The plot jumps from place to place, but this movement only emphasizes the role of chance...
When Ball founded A.C.T. in 1965, one aim was to combine a training academy for actors with a professional performing troupe that would also serve as teachers. A second was to provide a major new entrant to the then burgeoning regional-theater movement. Those goals were met: the conservatory today trains 70 actors in an academically accredited, three-year program, and the company won a 1979 Tony Award for regional excellence. But an equal concern for Ball, it seemed, was to ensure his own longevity, and that effort not only eventually doomed his tenure but nearly destroyed what...
Underlying Ball's embattled tenure was one of the central conflicts in the history of the regional movement. Is a city's theater the actual building and the bureaucratic institution, and thus a public trust conventionally subject to accountability? Or is the theater instead the work onstage, which rises or falls according to the individuality and vision of the company's artistic leader? Ball, who regarded the ouster of an artist by a board of directors as a kind of theft, stipulated when A.C.T. came to San Francisco that the local board must serve only as fund raisers, with scant...
...professors contacted yesterday said they were concerned that Clark--an outspoken critic of the Law School's left wing and radical scholars--would deepen the already serious ideological rifts in the faculty. Clark has often criticized adherents of the radical Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement, who say that the law is an instrument of social injustice...
...Clark, who has called the CLS movement "deeply pernicious," and urged that it be "combatted in legal education," said yesterday he did not intend to persecute the radical scholars or purge them from the school...