Word: stopparded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...garde operas, 40-foot high Lincolns and inexplicable rhinoceri--and no reviews in Newsweek either--but theater Like It Oughta Be. To underline the point, two of the playwrights that Robert Brustein named to Time Magazine as representing "the kind of theater we're not interested in"--Shaw and Stoppard--are featured in the current season at the Huntington...
...describing the meaning of his plays, Stoppard told the audience he feels like the traveller caught in customs with illegal contraband he didn't remember packing. "Most students are about as skeptical as most customs men," he said...
...response to a question about his political affiliation, Stoppard said, "I think I've ended up with middle class values, and I'm not going to chuck them because they are shared by a lot of people that I wouldn't be seen dead with...
...Stoppard also commented about the law school. "I believe radical law is quite big here," he said. "Radical law embraces the proposition that it is difficult and misguided to pin down in absolute terms what the law says...
...Stoppard's speech received frequent bursts of laughter and applause from the audience in the packed lecture hall...