Word: underplaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dodd committee feels that a prime factor in school violence these days is racial desegregation. For one thing, it tends to bring the volatility of some ghetto students into the more decorous white community. To compound the difficulties, many school administrators underplay violence out of fear that it will reflect on their ability to maintain control. In Washington, D.C., for example, one elderly woman teacher was kicked in the shins so severely that several operations were required to remove blood clots in her legs. Yet instead of upholding her, the principal labeled her a "troublemaker." Students, realizing that punishment...
...soul, not his race), only one of their kind could quibble with the show's numerous song and dance numbers. If this review were to mention all the good ones, it would end up becoming a Rabelaisian shopping list. Terrence Currier--who too often seemed to underplay his being the play's resident skeptic--unleashes a good, old-fashioned tenor. Ted D'Arms as Monsewer, an English anglophobe (a part almost too small for the amount of good things he puts into it) does a bit called "The Captains and the Kings" which would be the high point...
...should have lived through the ordeal, much less have borne a son to an Indian chieftain. Bibi is de fended by a trail scout (James Garner), who is determined to find the marshal who slew and scalped his Comanche wife. Broncobuster Sidney Poitier and Scottish Cavalryman Bill Travers pointedly underplay the long thought that a man's color or accent is no measure of his worth...
Vocally, the play builds in volume and intensity as it progresses. Babe has wisely chosen to have his actors underplay, forcing them to perform with self-discipline. The acting is amazing, considering that four of the five east-members are usually employed on the Harvard stage as comedians, and the fifth as a dancer. Emily Levine gives a spine-chilling performance as the mother, easily her best to date, and not once does she lapse into any of the mannerisms that have marked her last three performances. Susan Channing plays the daughter. Her sheer technical skill is amazing...
...against the union because of Weritas' ineptitude, and a group of witches object for totally obscure reasons. The plot was flimsy, but generally unobtrusive. In the second act however, the girls tried to interject a peace "message" concerning senseless bloodshed on the jousting field. They would have had to underplay it far more than they did for it not to seem out of place in an essentially frivolous show...