Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking in Lowell Lecture Hall, at the first Law School Forum of the year, Alinsky said, "Organization is a synonym for power, and action is the best way to organize." He described the role of the white liberal today as "working with the ghetto blacks as partners and, more importantly, doing their own thing in the white community and creating power blocs...
...production at Lincoln Center is a chiller in which an obstinate Mephistopheles stands as a towering match for the Almighty. From the moment when he first springs to life in Faust's laboratory, it is readily apparent that this is a Devil who bursts with the power of his own evil. He taunts God endlessly, even pulling an arrow brazenly from the chest of a statue of St. Sebastian to make wine flow from the wound. The new Faust might even be called Mephistopheles, so outrageous is it in its affront to operatic tradition. Yet it works because...
...fast-talking, wisecracking newsman during a career that spanned nearly half a century; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. After a successful start in 1928 as a brash reporter in Broadway's The Front Page, Tracy played variations on the same role in Clear All Wires (1933) and Power of the Press (1943). He reached the top in 1964, when he played the aging ex-President in The Best...
They had much else in common. Born in the 1860s and early 1870s, brought up in the Midwest (Turner in Wisconsin, Beard in Indiana, Parrington in Kansas), all of them came of age at a time when the balance of power and influence was shifting from the effete East to the still raw and resentful Midwest. The financial panic of 1893 was in the making. The Populist movement was galvanizing Westerners and farm folk everywhere into a struggle against big money and big-city interests...
...Carrè tells about that journey through nothingness with the same clean, tough style that he mastered in his earlier works-a lucid grasp on the physical and emotional landscapes that allows him the occasional power of poetic insight...