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...Inner City Repertory Dance Company, based in Los Angeles and led by a studious black named Donald McKayle, is a well-knit company of young black and white dancers. One of the best of them is Leslie Watanabe, who danced a leading role in McKayle's new Sojourn as though the work were not about a few visits, but about all time. Set to a wryly dissonant musical trifle, Rapsodie á Sept by André Jolivet, Sojourn sent the dancers back and forth in changing patterns like travelers meeting briefly at a crossroads. Another Inner City star is Michele...
Robert Jackson was, like his wife, from downstate Illinois. However, while she had enjoyed the freedom and stability of growing up nestled among a large well-knit clan in Harrisburg, he had been abandoned at an early age in the river town of East St. Louis. The demands of survival seem to have burdened Robert Jackson with a particular psychological afflication that was endemic to black men whose youth was consumed in Depression America. As it dictated on a less severe level to other men, survival demanded of Robert Jackson and men like him that they make an operational adjustment...
...voluntary action against the crushing power of irrational history--Buchner watches himself as he is swept along to a senseless, inevitable death. Sabel's treatment of the playwright is, strangely enough, almost entirely appropriate to historical fact, and a paradigm for the present as well. The two-act-play is skillfully consistent and well-knit, but its concentration of wit and the abruptness of scene-changes could only confuse an audience. Some plays are meant to be read rather than produced: that granted, Sabel's Play...is an admirable work...
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA is a work of beauty, excitement, and some complexity. For a film of its length, it is impressively mounted and well-knit (by the pre- Zhivago David Lean). However, once we become used to the breathtaking landscapes and come to recognize nuances of plot and characterization, the film fails to achieve the goal which justified its Super-Panavision scale: the creation of a paradigmatic tale recounting the fall of the twentieth-century Westerner before self-sufficient, tribal communities. Though David Lean's and screenwriter Robert Bolt's goal may seem portentously abstract, that goal is not achieved...
...argument demolishes any notion that we possess a well-knit social fabric. His fears are much the same as Fromm's in Escape from Freedom. His solution to our dangerous discontents- calling for a reintegration of ourselves into a community-is remarkably similar. Slater criticizes our compulsive inability to confront important issues and chronic social problems. He notes wittily that our approach to transportation problems has had the effect of making it easier to travel to more and more places that have become less and less worth diriving to-that is, if one can afford the luxury of a private...