Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current bias against the performing arts seems to reflect a persistent fear that Harvard might become a trade school, a professional school training craftsmen, not "scholars." Myra Mayman, director of the Office for the Arts, says Harvard is "a verbal place," and disregards non-verbal creative performance...
Dorfman became a photographer by accident--when she graduated from Tufts University she wanted to be a writer, a desire that apparently never completely died and is now reflected in the verbal orientation of her book. In the six years following graduation Dorfman held a succession of frustrating jobs--she arranged poetry readings for the young poets Grove Press published, taught fifth grade and developed teaching material for elementary school science teachers until at the age of 28, a friend put a camera in her hand and showed her how to use it. That was ten years ago and Dorfman...
...annual trip to California a potential source of relief. Instead, he encounters only additional frustration in the person of an eight-months-pregnant Doris. This pattern of blighted expectations recurs in the opening scene of the second act; this time, George-now a stuff, Establishment type-exchanges verbal thrusts with Doris-metamorphosed into a Berkeley flower child. Refusing indignantly to sleep with a former Goldwater voter, Doris sniffs, "And all the time I though Democrat...
...males and two females) finished their pre-show warmups. Accompanied by Patrick, the pianist, they hopped down the two steps from the wing onto their benches as the audience began scuffing into the theatre. Tapping their feet nervously and lighting each other's cigarettes, they exchanged a few verbal footnotes about the show's format before Patrick went back out to begin an improvised medley, setting an appropriate light, crisp mood...
...then converting it to an overweight teenage bemoaning in a "Dear Dr. Sisters" letter: "Should I be tubby, or not tubby?"), a grand opera and a poetry reading among others. New skits are constantly substituted for old ones in different performances, tailing one another with so much professional pace, verbal dexterity, and stylistic nuance that every show is enlightening, unpredictable, and unique. And yet, as Albert says, none of them are truly "spontaneous" in the sense that structure is never left to chance. There is a well-conceived skeleton within nearly every show bit, which any kind of good theatrical...