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...faithfully. James Earl Jones, as Robeson, is irresistably charming, though perhaps too irresistably charming, he makes such clever fun of the bigotry and ignorance that surrounded Robeson as he ventured into the world in the first half of the play that it is difficult to fully believe in the rage he vents in the second half. Jones imitates Robeson's resounding baritone well, if not remarkably, and also powerfully enacts a scene from Othello...
...looters, she writes, "were doing no such thing as expressing rage... They were having the time of their lives." The looters' behavior arose, she argues, out of the moral chaos that has resulted from liberals' misguided efforts to ameliorate ghetto conditions. All the liberal reformers have really managed to do is persuade the youth of the ghetto they are somehow disadvantaged and therefore cannot be held accountable for their actions...
...West," says Le Carré, "that we want to produce the loosest possible system which gives the greatest amount of individual freedom to each individual and minority. But in the defense of the individual we have to turn ourselves into a collective. Whatever wars rage outside, there remains a constant one inside: the open society versus the closed...
...July 16, 1977, Harvard University awarded an honorary degree to Albert Gordon '23, chairman of the board of directors of Kidder Peabody. It was exactly one year after South Africa's township exploded in rage against the racist apartheid system. Since the strikes in Soweto began, thousands of protesters have been killed, wounded or jailed without trial by South Africa's white minority government. But big U.S. companies like Kidder Peabody have refused to end their involvement in South Africa. Harvard's links to U.S. corporations tie the University to oppression in South Africa--a tie symbolized by Gordon...
Cruel but rich in comic relief, Chicago follows the murder trial of Roxie Hart, a "foxy lady" who has one of her many affairs with a furniture salesman, shoots him in a rage and then talks her compliant husband into confessing to the murder. He blows her cover, however, and Roxie finds herself in the friendly confines of the Cook County Jail where the lady inmates, fresh from the opening and most impressive number entitled "All That Jazz", dance cell-door-in-hand to the beat of "Cell Block Tango...