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...play is a journey. It can be an outward journey through time, place and action. Or it can be an inner journey through mood, psyche and character. Murray Schisgal's Jimmy Shine attempts an inner journey. The trouble is that it doesn't go anywhere. Jimmy Shine is a transparent character: to see him once is to know him totally. He is a luckless misadventurer, a congenital flunker in the school of life, a born loser with a ready quip for a pick-me-up. Jimmy Shine does not grow, change, or develop, he simply recapitulates himself...
...lunch-time rally in support of the strikers' demands for a student-controlled Black Studies Department, the reinstatement of George Murray as a part-time instructor, and admission of all non-white applicants, drew a crowd of 300 strike supporters and 1000 others...
...Sugar Plum, he has written about a meeting between a coed artist and the boy who had run over and killed her finance with his car. The whole thing is ludicrous in a Murray Schisgal sort of way; no sooner does the girl arrive, indignant over the death of the man she loved, than she sets out to make it with the killer...
...Francisco tactical police squad, which had been called in to clear the campus during earlier disorders, was summoned again. A faculty meeting, convened to decide whether or not the faculty should join the strike, voted instead to demand the resignation of Chancellor Dumke for having ordered Murray's suspension. Many faculty members felt that Murray's provocations were intolerable and that he purposely sought suspension in order to rally support for earlier B.S.U. demands. But they resented Dumke's intervention in college affairs even more. The faculty also voted for a "suspension of instruction," and within...
...Rome, nurturing his aversion to politics, as well as rewriting and reissuing his novels. To ex-Communists and younger, unencumbered New Leftists, he is a veteran saint of the revolution for social justice and individual dignity. Yet, as keeper of the flame, Silone is an exceedingly human presence: Columnist Murray Kempton once described him as looking and talking like a tobacconist...