Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...church setting makes The Persians seem like a hushed memorial service for the dead of all wars. Despite an occasionally stilted phrase, the John Lewin free translation is fluent, vivid and clear. The cast performs with tender gravity, and Jacqueline Brookes, in particular, brings affecting dignity to the role of King Xerxes' mother, as does J.A. Preston as the bearer of unbearable news. Underscoring the dialogue like a chorus of tears is the santur music of Composer Nasser Rastegar-Nejad. If someone had commissioned a great poet-playwright to write a drama for a Moratorium Day, this would...
...were the grotesque dances of Sartre's tragic chorus of "flies." Black costumes and subtle choreography by Wakeen Ray-Riv made the eight dancers a malevolent presence on stage. Orestes' final exorcism of remorse-his cowing of the "flies" as the symbol of fate-turned out to be a vivid pied-piper spectacle. As the "liberator" of Argos he had to put the rats (flies) on his own trail, burdening himself to unburden others...
Among the brave band of Russians who campaign openly for greater civil liberties in the Soviet Union, there is no more vivid personality than former Major General Pyotr Grigorenko. The 62-year-old war hero is an outspoken defender of the sovereignty of Czechoslovakia, the rights of the U.S.S.R.'s Crimean Tartar minority and other causes. His distinguished war record, which won him an Order of Lenin, and the fact that he taught cybernetics at the Frunze Academy, the Russian equivalent of West Point, made him a particular embarrassment to Soviet authorities. They cashiered him from the army...
...offices and executive suites, blacks face more subtle problems. Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League, has a vivid description of how the world of white-collar work appears to a black man. "We can still usually tell what floor we are on in a corporation by the whiteness of it," he says. "In the basement, it might be all black; on the first floor, it's sort of polka dot. But as you go up, it gets whiter, and soon you get near the top, and except for that guard or receptionist out front...
...Berman, the manager, has very vivid memories about driving the truck which held the cellos, basses, and percussion. "That truck was a kind of wonder. I don't remember whether the back door worked or not, but if it did it was the only thing on the truck that did work. The tail-lights were broken, the speedometer was broken. The right front door wouldn't open and it wouldn't close but existed in a state somewhere in between so that the person sitting on the floor next to the door (there was only one seat, behind the steering...