Word: staging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GREAT WHITE HOPE, a sprawling semidocumentary, by Howard Sackler traces the career of the first Negro heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson. The play is a drama of contrition spiked by the adrenaline of newspaper headlines, but James Earl Jones, as the brooding boxer, commands the stage like an avenging giant...
Late in every presidential campaign there comes a time for Cabinet making, the traditional guessing game about the candidate's preferences for the top posts in his Administration. In Hubert Humphrey's camp last week, the speculation went beyond that stage. The word was that Humphrey, if elected, might create two additional Cabinet posts: one for youth, the other for consumers. Still, most of the guessing ranges around the men who might fill traditional Cabinet posts in the next Administration. Some possibilities...
...troops do not seem to mind the harshness of the command; they follow Steiner because they believe he is a winner and because he has juju (good luck). Thus Steiner has had no trouble refilling the depleted ranks of the Fourth at this late stage in the conflict. Guerrilla warfare may be the way out, he thinks. "If the towns are taken, we will go into the bush," he says. "We could do the job. But we must have weapons. We don't need armor. We need trucks. We don't need much air. But spotter planes would...
...power of this final tabloid is more to the credit of Lowell than the TCB. The violence itself is difficult to mis-stage, but it makes sense only if the production's narrow reading of the script is expanded. While racism is essential to Delano's behavior, the TCB fails to suggest that the Yankee would defend his (national) values against any threat--racial or not--not by reason or mercy, but by force. Benito Cereno is less a tragedy of malice or vengefulness--suggested by the Theater Company--than of American blindness...
...wizened puppet moved across the stage, he fit the bogeyman pattern, and his first few words confirmed the image. At first he told a few forced jokes about Humphrey ("he talks about a debate--why, he is a debate"), did some buttering-up of the locals ("I am grateful to be John Volpe's friend"), and then took a tentative swing into the platitudes of The Nixon Speech--the same one he has used since the convention...