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...student in other words, it's scary to stick your neck out and sometimes you do and you flop miserably. Sometimes the artists in this show flop miserably--but usually because they've fallen prey to the modern student syndrome of not experimenting, or staying in a rut. Those who move beyond the strict confines of a teacher's assignment, if nothing else, escape the mortal sin of being boring. When you're exhibiting in a building that has been likened to two grand pianos fucking, that's something to avoid at all costs...
...social historical document than an aesthetic success, the piece is played dead seriously but turns out to be quite enjoyable, and, of course, pretty funny to a modern audience. It's good to see the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid, always a good, cause, getting out of the Broadway-musical rut they'd been in for their last few productions Originally they were going to do Witness for the Prosecution but the lead got mono. Knowing that Ten Nights is not exactly a household word, the Grant-in-Aid people have decided that the best thing to accompany a temperance play...
...Strange Appeal. Social psychologists have long been aware that disasters can exert a strange appeal. The sharing of a common threat pulls people together and creates a sense of purpose and adventure. "If you're in a rut, locked into your career," says Marvin Geller, director of Princeton's counseling services, "you may hope for some cataclysmic event to shake you out of it." Nostalgia for the '30s, fed by TV shows like The Waltons, can make the harsh realities of depression seem attractive...
...aspect of OEO's program went further, affording the potential for eliminating the rut altogether. The Legal Services Program, begun in 1965 with offices in only 14 communities, developed over the next decade into a broad-based force for social change, operating out of 900 neighborhood offices and employing over 2500 lawyers. When established groups like the American Bar Association gave their early approval to the program, they were unaware of the implications legal aid for the poor had for the American legal system. They supported a limited program whereby the impoverished would receive free counsel for individual problems such...
...been a decade since Lyndon Johnson told the American people that it could eliminate poverty. Now, with the demise of the Office of Economic Opportunity to come in September, Johnson's hopes lie trampled in the ever-deep rut of poverty that runs through the nation's cities...