Word: watchful
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Crime weighs heavily on the minds of Detroit's middle class, although it's an issue few residents want to discuss. In some neighborhoods, armed guards stand watch outside houses of worship; in September a pastor shot a man trying to rob his church. In others, street barricades have been set up to help deter potential thieves...
REED BRODY, an officer at Human Rights Watch, on the Mo Ibrahim Foundation's decision not to award its annual $5 million prize--the world's largest--for good governance on the continent...
When alums return for the Reunion Weekend, they don’t just sit on the sidelines—they often suit up and play alongside current members. “Some alums will watch the game from the stands, but about 150 chose to play with us,” notes Drill Master Bradley E. Oppenheimer...
With so many alums returning to both watch and play in band events, it’s a wonder how they all have instruments. “Many alums bring their own instruments,” explains Oppenheimer, “but for large instruments like the tuba or sousaphone, we contact area schools and ask to borrow them. For instance, this year, we borrowed instruments from the band departments at both MIT and [local high school] Cambridge Rindge and Latin. We have a good relationship with them, and borrow from them, just as we’d let them...
Even the audience is asked to take on a double role. We are at once 1808 bourgeois intellectuals invited to witness the playacting of inmates and our own theatre-going selves, who watch both the play itself and the intellectuals’ reaction to it. This idea of surveillance and reaction comes from the text—Weiss was influenced by the theories of Bertolt Brecht, a German playwright who believed in politicizing theater by highlighting its artificiality—and Leaf uses it fully...