Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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INEXPERIENCED acting and awkward staging account for the rough spots in the production. The English accents pronounced by some of the younger actors waver a bit indecisively before settling on region and dialect. Occasionally failing to pay attention to one another, the players time some of their remarks poorly. And though the audience surrounds the stage on only three sides with the bulk of the spectators in front of the stage, altogether too many of the characters' movements are directed to the back of the set, as if the play were being performed in the round. The actors often manage...
...Mediterranean, close to the cradle of Western civilization. A mere 40 miles south of Turkey, 100 miles west of Lebanon, and 525 miles east of Greece, Cyprus for millennia has been a strategic prize for any power seeking to control the politics and commerce of the region...
...Tuscany" mood that had nothing to do with the country's annual swarm of tourists. In Tuscany, the Piedmont and Sicily, Italy's three giant labor federations called carefully orchestrated half-day work stoppages to protest government fiscal policy. Each day the protests occurred in a different region. In Turin, 25,000 auto workers poured into Piazza San Carlo for a noisy protest. Then in Florence, 40,000 mounted a parade. In Sicily, in turn, peasant farmers waved large banners that said it all succinctly: NO TO THE SUPER-DECREE...
...Capitalizing on his salesmanship after law school, he and a partner started a publishing company that specialized in cookbooks. Dees sold the firm for some $6 million in 1969, opened the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery the next year, and established himself as one of the region's leading civil rights attorneys. He filed suits that forced the hiring of black state troopers in Alabama, integrated the Montgomery Y.M.C.A., and generally discomfited the Establishment. In 1972 he helped George McGovern organize a spectacularly successful mail appeal for contributions...
...considered to be one of the top black leaders in the U.S. today. A 1960 Howard University law graduate, he is a cool-headed peacemaker who earned his civil rights stripes escorting Charlayne Hunter through snarling white students at the University of Georgia. As head of the Southern Regional Council's 1968 voter-education drive, he helped put 2 million new black voters on the rolls and ultimately increase the region's number of elected black officials from 72 to 564. He is a director of Xerox, J.C. Penney and several other large corporations...