Word: set
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first of these one-acters, Israel Horovitz's Morning, is black in every sense. The set and costumes are black, the people are black (or white, as I'll explain in a second), the humor is black. It is a strange play, one that insecure whites and Uncle Toms will call racist. Don't believe them...
Horovitz has set the work in Harlem, on one particular morning when a black family of four wakes up to find themselves as white as the sun outside their 125th Street window. They achieved this color transformation, you see, with the help of some amazing pills sold to them by a Jewish pawnbroker who got them from God (who is black), (Or maybe you don't see- it doesn't matter...
...superior to the original handling of these plays on Broadway last year. He has used the Loeb's three-sided arena set-up for maximum advantage, and achieved a high level of ensemble playing from the five members of the cast...
Asbury Methodist is one of four reception centers New Mobe has set up throughout the city. Marchers from each state are assigned to a center. Two of the centers are twice as large as this one. A minister from Wellesley at the information booth said this center processed 425 people between 7 and 10 p. m. Thursday...
...responded to him; no one in the White House responded to the 40,000 names shouted. We could not see the White House even though we passed along Pennsylvania Avenue a stone's throw away (had we dared). We couldn't see because of enormous, blinding lights set up so we couldn't see to throw. We could only see the guards in the gatehouses along the fence...