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...style requires leaders in accord with it. It needs the charismatic speaker, the popular folk singer, the crusading star. Protest is also entertainment. A revolt is a "happening," important in its own right and repleat with emotion, even hysteria. Events should be escalated quickly-- piling grievance on grievance and "atrocity" on "atrocity," encouraging the authorities and the police to create martyrs, seeking emotional commitment. The enemy must be personalized and vilified. It is, among other things, a great existential experience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Meaning of 'Activism' | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

...David Rittenhouse as the rogue, Autolycus, and Bruce Kornbluth as the shepard more than compensate for these difficulties. Repleat with disguises, dialects, and wit, Rittenhouse continually befuddles the shepherd folk and has a great time in the process. So does the audience. Kornbluth muddles about with engaging senility as the creaky stepfather of Perdita. The young lovers, Perdita (Barbara Jean Friend) and Florizel (Louis Lopez-Cepero), are god although somewhat less than enchanting since they are a bit lost amid all the rustic revelry...

Author: By Ben W. Heineman jr., | Title: The Winter's Tale | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

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