Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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YOUR OWN THING is a rock musical that uses an Elizabethan vehicle, Twelfth Night, to celebrate the modern spirit...
Well, it is three hundred and thirty-two years now, and class spirit to uphold these traditions is more important than ever. Jubilee Weekend is only what you make it--you, Harvard's freshmen...
...fire, and who listened to the musical cadence and vaulting poetry of his speech--"I have a dream, the last, free at last, (only last Wednesday) I have been to the mountain top"--and those marched behind him for justice, we are together now, in communion with his spirit...
...Monday, the troops sent into burning ghettos go to protect black property as well as white. Afro is justified too in its anger at whites, who abuse his memory with substanceless odes to his non-violent tactics. But for Afro to put its energies into developing a fighting spirit and charting the logistics of racial warfare would be useless...
...confrontation with the text. His interpolations (among them a parody soap opera by distinguished Warholian, Gerard Malanga, and a number of creaky, smutty japes) are as distortive as they are entertaining. His choices in directing characters (especially the daughter of the family, who Mary Moss portrays with special spirit as a flaming youth, in passionate rebellion against adult American materialism and hypocrisy) are well-realized and consistent in themselves, but serve finally to polarize the production and the text...