Word: skills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Repeated Taunts. Although the blacks number only 250 students out of Cornell's enrollment of 13,500, they responded with relentless agitation and tactical skill. Last December seven Negroes rampaged through the administration building, where they brandished toy pistols and overturned vending machines. The demonstrators were immediately called before a student-faculty disciplinary committee. But they refused to appear on the ground that Cornell could hardly act as an impartial judge of "political action" against the university itself. When the committee threatened to suspend the six unless they showed up, the blacks turned the tables-they cited an obscure...
...actors or courtesans of the day, picturesque views of Mount Fuji and picaresque travel scenes. They were known as ukiyo-e, literally "pictures of the floating world," because to devout Buddhists everyday existence was a transient stage in man's journey to nirvana. Yet the lasting charm and skill with which the Japanese craftsmen imbued their images have influenced Western artists from Constable onward...
...contrast to Lermontov stand Doctor Werner, his good friend, and Varvara Bekhmetyeva, his mistress, who pass through the novel unchanged. Michael Tratner, as Werner, plays from this vantage point with great skill, creating a physician who is solid and sensible, a man who has his head screwed on the right way. In doing so, he becomes the sorely-needed link between Lermontov's reality and his illusions, a function Lermontov becomes increasingly less able to fulfill himself...
Disturbing the stagnant peace are more than 350 black hospital employees, most of them women, most of them of limited education and skill, who work as nurse's aides, practical nurses, orderlies, kitchen help, janitors and maids. The majority earn between $1.30 and $1.60 an hour. They are striking two hospitals, making the issues not wages and working conditions, but simply union recognition and the right to collective bargaining...
...wondered where they could all fit. But David Hammond's staging finds places for all of them, and, much more remarkably, makes it tolerably believable that they are indeed sailors milling about on a ship's main deck. Hammond's talents as a director, though, are overshadowed by his skill as a choreographer; the action became so compelling on one trio that the audience found itself clapping in time to Larson and Davies...