Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaigns, Robert Harris, then president of the student body at Michigan State University, was bothered by what he felt to be inaccurate claims of campus support being trumpeted by some of the candidates. But he saw no point in taking his protest to the picket lines. He did not stage a sit-in, or even dream of holding a faculty member hostage. Instead, as this year's election approached, he came to TIME with an idea. Why not find out what the students really think...
Jean or Jack, can insult our people and call them cowardly." If the talks reach a second stage, Ky is scheduled to head the South's delegation?which can hardly be a comforting thought to the U.S. For the time being, Saigon will send as many as 20 "observers...
...accompanies Northern black demonstrations around the time of Dr. King's death, occupy a position of strength within the University. With the right technique, students can rally enough power to stop the University. Whether this is also enough power to change it remains in doubt. This is the third stage of the Columbia demonstration, student activism to force constructive and permanent change. The rationale for prolonging the demonstration before the violence, and the movement toward student solidarity after the violence, are the first and second stages...
...settings themselves (for which no program credit is provided) are neither beautiful, flexible, nor functional--consisting largely of sliding stair units and walls bearing faded and indifferently rendered Egyptian wall motifs--the use Chapman makes of them is bold and consistent. Given an almost unnaturally broad and shallow stage, he has chosen to arrange almost every scene as a balanced static composition, varied only at moments of true dramatic necessity. The effect seems to me to be entirely intentional, and it works splendidly in the frequent crowd scenes, when the groupings suggest at once the linear composition of classical...
Honesty and intelligence may seem to be terms of praise more suited to serious drama than comedy. But these are precisely the qualities lacking from too much stage comedy, and especially from comedy of ideas. An audience must be able to laugh, but it must also be able to respect itself and the object of its amusement afterwards. Among the many, many moments of laughter in this Caesar and Cleopatra, none is cheapened or distorted. And that is an accomplishment in itself...