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Arising from a thicket of local grass roots, Christian schools today are found in a bewildering variety of shapes and sizes from kindergarten through grade twelve, at academic levels that range from fairly high to very low. Discrimination in favor of religion is a basic raison d'etre, and at the more zealous schools, a tub-thumping suspicion of all nonreligious learning fills the air. In a 150-page how-to-start-a-school guide for would-be organizers, Educator Robert Billings (now a top Reaganite administrator in the Department of Education) warns in capital letters: NO UNSAVED INDIVIDUALS...
...more characters filter into the lobby, it becomes increasingly obvious that the Baltimore has turned into a flop house. (The missing "e" in the title shows not only how the neon sign has fared, but also hints at the new raison d'etre of the establishment.) Two or more stock hookers-with-hearts-of-gold wander in, complaining about the hot water and "business." They fare little better than Raiser, particularly Ann Diamond as April, who seems to have been given the role solely for her alarming shock of blond hair. Her arms flailing with almost every line, she demonstrates...
However, the doubts expressed in the editorial about the actions of GUERRILLA manifest something of a misunderstanding of the role and raison d'etre of our organization. This we hope to make clear in what follows...
Scottie Templeton is one such com pulsive performer. To him, silence is gelding and only two sounds are pleasing: his own voice and his listener's laughter. As the central character, comic relief, raisonneur and raison d'être of Bernard Slade's play Tribute, Scottie kept the jokes flowing as his world collapsed like a burlesque banana's baggy pants. On Broadway, as incarnated by Jack Lemmon, Scottie was a sympathetic soul. With the footlights acting as a DMZ between character and playgoer, Scottie could be abstracted and romanticized: he was the fatally ill trouper...
...raison d'etre of the managerial class"--whom Darity called "workers of the mind," as opposed to "workers of the body--"is domination and control," he said...