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Although Hansberry's status as a Black woman writer provides for various dramatic conflicts, the issue most frequently addressed is whether a Black should strive for incremental change without directly disrupting American power structures, or whether a Black should force change through confrontation...
...minorities and few full or flattering roles for women. And as most high-school English teachers will tell you, even the roles written for women were until recently played by men. So in a progressive world, the argument follows, we learn to disregard a script's proscriptions and strive for an theatrical world where minorities and women have a place on stage...
This problem of dramatic tension and variation is complicated by the fact that this play treats itself with frank absurdity and insouciance. As Rob remarks at one point, "Even when something happens here, nothing happens." The text seems to strive for the bizarre comedy of nothingness epitomized in Waiting For Godot. In Beckett's work, though nothing happens, the audience is satisfied and even amused. But these characters lack the magnetism and originality of a Vladimir or an Estragon...
When Mikhail Gorbachev decided a year ago that the Communist Party daily Pravda needed a face-lift, he appointed Politburo ally and confidant Ivan Frolov, 61, to perform the surgery. Frolov quickly pledged that the conservative Soviet mouthpiece would strive to reflect the "pluralism of opinions" within the Communist Party. But the promised glasnost failed to materialize. Last month at an open party meeting, Pravda employees angrily demanded their editor in chief's resignation. Frolov, they fumed, was high- handed, rude and a sycophant of the worst order. Staff members charged that he muzzled editorial voices and blocked attempts...
Initially, Frolov offered to resign. But after the Central Committee insisted that he stay put, he went on the offensive. Last week he announced a new and more autonomous Pravda, one that will be independently managed, will accept advertising from foreign firms and will strive harder to woo back readers. Although the paper will retain "deep ideological ties" with the party, it will be run by an independent association that will not only publish Pravda (the name means truth) and its Sunday supplement but will also develop a television program, an international edition and a string of advertising supplements...