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...only 15 and has never had a drink. But Yolanda King, daughter of the late Martin Luther King Jr., raised a thunder of applause at her debut last week as the dirty-mouthed whore in The Owl and the Pussycat at Atlanta's Alliance Theater. The story line did not seem to bother her mother Coretta. But Grandfather Martin Luther King Sr. and the more conservative members of the Ebenezer Baptist Church were outraged. Yolanda managed to mollify them. "Though I didn't like the language," she said, "I felt that the play had something very important...
...mobilize a group of New York City liberationists to stand on street corners and whistle at construction workers, complimenting them on their bleeps and hardhats. And street confrontations can anger women like N. O. W.'s Ti-Grace Atkinson to remark that the only honest woman is a whore: at least she gets paid for walking the streets...
...merely going through the ritual of describing his first contacts with blacks, his textbook injustices to them and his first realization that blacks could be as intelligent as white folks. All that is here (and vividly set down)-but so are the sexual fantasies (Lena Horne, a black whore) and the methods used to profit off of racism (e.g., falsely playing up an affection for blacks to a bigoted farmer so that the farmer would kill his daughter's plans to trap the unwilling King in marriage). King also accounts for the embarrassing liberal gestures with which he at first...
...sentimental journey creates more chill than charm. She is unsettled to find Belfast decorated for the festival of July 12-the date in 1690 of the Battle of the Boyne which "ensured the preservation of the true Protestant Christian faith against the Whore of Rome...
...makes several bitter attacks on "academic theatre," using such terms as "a bore," "an evasion," and (my favorite) "fierce suspicion." I can't say that I disagree with his terms, but I am glad that he decided to come: the current production of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, directed by Vaughan, is certainly the best thing to appear on the Loeb mainstage in some time...