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...CAST is important because there aren't the roles for Black people," says CAST vice-president Cheryl Nelson '89. "The issue isn't discrimination. The issue is that for some plays, it's clear from the start that a character should be played by a white, not for appearance but for cultural reasons...
...Except for a Black person's attempt, you don't see a predominantly non-white cast at Common Casting," Nelson says about the weeklong auditions. She says that directors select plays about cultures with which they are familiar...
...walls became festooned with ecumenical snapshots of the great and the Grossinger: Jack Benny, Robert Kennedy, Lionel Hampton, Jackie Robinson, Terence Cardinal Cooke, Alan Alda, Yogi Berra, Nelson Rockefeller, Ralph Bunche, Eleanor Roosevelt. The 800-acre complex had its own post office (Grossinger, N.Y.), 600 rooms, a l,700-seat dining area, a $7 million annual gross. Its dancing masters Tony and Lucille introduced the mambo to the U.S. Jennie appeared on This Is Your Life...
...Though outlawed since 1960, the A.N.C. has emerged during the unrest of the past two years as the focal point of political allegiance in the seething black townships, the source of growing guerrilla ferment and, paradoxically, a possible key to an eventual solution of the South African dilemma. In Nelson Mandela and four other A.N.C. leaders who have spent the past 24 years in prison for their campaign against apartheid, the organization holds claim to a virtual pantheon of martyrs whose resistance appears more heroic by the day to a vast majority of blacks. In the face of severe criticism...
...negotiations with the South African government. What the A.N.C. is looking for is a clear indication that the other side is serious. If the South African government is serious, then our leaders, who, like Nelson Mandela, have been in jail for over 20 years, must participate in any negotiations. The mere fact of their release would create a new climate. We do not want to substitute negotiations for the struggle. The Portuguese negotiated with the liberation fronts in Mozambique and Angola while hostilities were still going on. The liberation struggle for Zimbabwe continued while talks went on at Lancaster House...