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Free University students announced preparations for a community "play-care center" which they plan to open Wednesday at Lawrence Hall. They will construct a playground today on the lawn in front of Lawrence Hall...
...Jewish Bostonians and now little more than a gathering place for old men who sip coffee, Julius Kolodny says bitterly: "Black and white can never mix. They burned my house to the ground, those kids. Then this woman comes and says why don't I make it a playground. I said drop dead I'll make it a playground...
...tells the marks that they are five years old. Ten seconds later the crowd is howling. These zombies are crawling around on hands and knees on stage, playing in imaginary sand. Dan is the playground bully: he is telling all the others where to play, he's pushing the girls around, he's making fists at the other kids. There is no doubt that Dan is the star of the stars tonight...
...sleep. (2) dreamful sleep. (3) "waking sleep" (identification of others in relation to "I"), (4) self-identification (from the perspective of all "non-I"), and (5) cosmic identification (variously described as Paradise, incorporation with the All, Nirvana). Almost all of us spend our lives in the third room, the playground of the ego, under the cruel deception that we know who we are and what we are doing. In the moments that we consider our "best"-our most loving. spontaneous. "together"-we occasionally glimpse into the fourth room, only to be driven back to the third by the everyday, performance...
This is just what Folklorists lona and Peter Opie have done in Children's Games in Street and Playground, published by the Oxford University Press. For 20 years the husband-and-wife team has been exploring and documenting the cultural patterns that characterize childhood. Their particular flair is an ability to see children's activities from the perspective of the young. Their new book is an expert guided tour of that arcane subsociety in which play is as vital as work is to the adult...