Word: playing
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...Sort of yeah, sort of no. I would never say that I compromise my music to the point where I am playing things that I don't like. I think that is where I would draw the line with my career; if I ever started doing that, then it would become a job. But at the same time you want people in the club; you want people coming through the door, and for your radio broadcast you certainly want people listening, so you have to keep that in mind without compromising your own integrity. You definitely want to play what...
...Harvard's appearance in the Rose Bowl, the stellar young Crimson bucks play Oregon and triumph by one point in a game that goes down in history as Harvard football's first and last stand...
Some say that the answer lies in an overdose of political correctness--the high school administration was eager to appease the anger of a group of minority students and so just cancelled the play out of hand. That may be part of it, but the larger answer is that everyone involved in this controversy is suffering an overdose of incorrect assumptions...
When the white Jets sing to the police officer on their tale in "Office Krupke," they are singing for all the delinquent youth in the play: "There is good, there is good/There is untapped good/Like inside, the worst of us is good." To examine the play and find it intentionally, harmfully stereotypical is not just a difference of opinion, it's a misinterpretation of the authors' intent. "West Side" is a timeless story, whether it's set in 16th-century Verona, 1950's New York or any modern city today...
...musical, followed (or preceded, or both) by vigorous discussion and debate over the origin of the story, its influences and the aims of its creators. Dickinson once wrote in her poem "The Show": "The show is not the show,/But they that go./Menagerie to me/My neighbor be./Fair play--Both went to see." The great poet could not have imagined these neighbors, and sadly, there will be no "West Side" show to see in Amherst this winter...