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...social pathologies facing some one-third of Black Americans who are in or near poverty, they have to rid themselves of an immature and phony perspective toward ethnic leadership. Blacks with wealth and institutional resources will have to put some of these on the line (not just ethnocentric theatric)in order to upgrade the Black poor, or stop all the fast and easy talk about being Black leaders And Blacks with cosmopolitan lifestyles, with linkages to inter-ethnic friendships and networks have got to find ways in out ncoconservative era to get these cross-ethnic networks and friends to recognize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cosmopolitan Imperative | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...using them this way to become sensitive to both the present and the past. Seven Against Therbes could be used to tell a culture about the dangers of civil strife, Perhaps Endgame should be adopted in to a new play: an existential version of The Day After or a theatric reminder that the war on poverty was just at unsuccessful as the debacle in Vietnam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Between Art and Law | 1/21/1985 | See Source »

...innovations which simply don't work, but for the most part the play is jarring and shocking in an adventurous, appealing way. The vitality and creativity of the Harvard Summer. The vitality group are well represented in this, the first play of the season Spring Awakening is a daring theatric production and a strikingly human drama...

Author: By Nancy I. Youseff, | Title: Life Confronts Theater | 7/3/1984 | See Source »

...mankind must, as the book's title suggests, learn to live with nuclear weapons while preventing their use--in other words, detersons. But the effectiveness of detainee cannot be measured in absolute terms, Cap Weinberger not with sinoding. Some weapons--and some theatric--can prove destabilizing. It is probably unwise, for example, that the U.S. should seek rough parity with the Soviet Union, eschewing new weapons systems that might either frighten or tempt the Soviets...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Nukes Without Illusions | 5/6/1983 | See Source »

...never took it seriously, and I'm surprised to have to prove to anybody that Alice Cooper is no threat, merely the latest in a series of progressively more theatric rock performance. To call his performance antilife, when it is really an attempt to augment a medium that is in danger of stagnation, is to deny his innovative efforts, and is wildly paranoic to boot. Concern for society is one thing, witch hunting is another. Besides, Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention were performing almost precisely the same things almost four years ago. Zappa's atrocities, as they were called...

Author: By Frederick Boyd, | Title: In Defense of Alice Cooper | 12/14/1972 | See Source »

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