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Today's list of endemic woes, topped by economic stagnation and ethnic warfare, certainly add up to a crisis. But it is a creeping, chronic crisis, not one that galvanizes people or calls for leaders to wield a sword of confrontation. Now, when the challenge is mainly to cooperate, to find national and multilateral solutions to long-term ills, today's leaders are coming up short...
...range far beyond the epistemological conundrums that preoccupy many professional philosophers. Nor is he easy to typecast as a liberal or conservative, black nationalist or integrationist, since he endorses bits and pieces of all those ideas. Instead, this self-styled "intellectual freedom fighter" wields his learning as a polemical sword, slashing at barriers that prevent "ordinary people from living lives of dignity." Says West: "We need intellectual weaponry to find out why people, black and white, are catching the hell they're catching in America and around the world. If we don't have it, and historical windows open...
Since the drama consists mainly of dialogue, the director has less scope for innovation than in other plays. But Kamarei introduces some interesting touches. During one of Rosencrantz's monologues, Broder acts out scenes of brutal bloodletting with a sword and armor. The fine blocking and motion in the silent interchanges between our two heroes indicate Kamarei's talents...
...dictum. There is a word for it, Giorgionesque, an allusive quality that comes through even in conventional subjects, such as the exquisite portrait of a young knight surrounded by the gleaming black weapons of his vocation, a dense still life with religious overtones (the handle and pommel of the sword are also a cross), the bony silence of the knight's face contrasting with the open mouth of his page. But the most enduring product of the relation between Titian and Giorgione was the pastoral...
Youth is a double-edged sword: While enthusiasm can carry a team, inexperience can drop it just as quickly. Still, Head Coach David Fish is optimistic about the team's potential...