Word: sell-out
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While Psalms has its tightly-structured side (the director called its parallel form "neo-classical"), it is also a work with room to experiment. The play has changed a lot since the first run when, at a college in Marin County where it played a sell-out run to standing ovation crowds, it was performed in Kabuki style and dress. Since then it has been a bit different at every run (this is to be its fifth). Here the genre is undefinable: some ritual-like dances and primitive-looking celebrations resemble an orgiastic Zoroastrean ceremony, others are solemn and formal...
Some people consider working with unions a sell-out since it implies an acceptance of the wage system and is incompatible with workers control and reform movements. Lisa disagrees. "To work for revolutionary socialism is to bypass too many steps and to leave people with too many doubts," Lisa said. "A lot of people have ideals but have few ideas of how to get there...
...avoid being implicated in--seems arbitrary at best and, given Vietnam, stupid and crude at worst. One wonders how many of them will continue this specific concern for Angola, or could even point it out on a map. As for divestiture as a demand, whatever publicity value a Harvard sell-out might have in placing the University's prestige behind the struggle of the Angolese people, would evaporate with the widespread knowledge that it was only done because students had taken over a building...
...smash the state' by breaking windows in cut-rate department stores in Chicago. PL continued to come up with gems of analysis; they attributed the hardhat attack on the peace demonstrators as provoked by the demonstrators' support for Ho Chi Minh--who the hardhats knew to be a sell-out because he was negotiating at Paris...
Even the old-time populists were represented. Firtz V. Stover, a weather-beaten Iowa farmer in his sixties who nominated Henry Wallace at the 1948 Progressive Party convention. ("I knew soon enough though that he was a sell-out"), told the farm workshop about the plight of the small farmers being bought out by agribusiness. "It's almost as bad as the Hoover Depression," he lamented...