Word: staging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even here, even with rotten acoustics, a small stage, and dungeon-like atmosphere, the message of the Fish comes through. It's an easy message--one of love and feeling...
...present, and gladly anticipate the future without sacrificing one to the other. Christ has come to previous generations of men in various guises, as teacher, judge, healer. Now, in a new or really an old but recaptured guise, Christ has begun to make an unexpected entrance onto the stage of modern secular life. Enter Christ the harlequin: the symbol of festivity and fantasy in an age which has almost lost both...
Sammy Davis Jr. wore shiny leather pants-boots, side-zipped leather jacket, open-throated red shirt and a heavy gold medallion on a chain. On the make shift stage and backed by Louis Bellson's orchestra, he socked it to the audience of 485 Hollywood celebrities for a solid forty minutes. "If you don't take it easy, I'm gonna leave!" shouted Joey Bishop from his ringside table. Sammy, sweat glistening on his face, sang and danced even harder. The per formance rated him a standing ovation. Pierre Salinger seemed positively stunned. "The chemistry was fantastic...
...months ago, when McCarthy stepped forward to oppose Johnson and the war, he said that he would be willing to defer to a stronger peace candidate. One has now appeared. It will not be easy for McCarthy, after the euphoria of New Hampshire, to yield the center of the stage. But the ideals that prompted him to enter the race now challenge him to an even harder and lonelier decision: to leave...
Clearly Robert Kennedy has something to offer the anti-Johnson effort at this stage. But by jumping into the race as a candidate, he would only point up his least attractive side and start off offending a substantial portion of the electorate. By throwing his support behind McCarthy, he can avoid the onus of opportunism, and add his proven abilities as an organizer in familiar surroundings to McCarthy's equally proven abilities as a campaigner in unfamiliar ones. Their potentials can be fused in a way they could not be with Kennedy the candidate...