Word: zangara
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chancellor Rudy Crew nixed the buyout, saying it would "adversely affect the opportunity for equity" among the city's schools, the parents went to court and took to the streets. After a week of rancorous meetings, the two sides struck a deal last Thursday that reinstated the teacher, Lauren Zangara, and returned the parents' money--but barred them from any future attempt to pay faculty salaries. The city "will allow parents to make valuable contributions to their schools," Crew said, "within appropriate limits...
Several parents did threaten to relocate their children to private schools if Crew didn't reinstate Zangara. But the parents refuted the image that they were pampered yuppies with money to burn, pointing out that the school has working-class families too. They also say that the loss of one teacher would make the size of each fourth-grade class 10 students larger than the state average. Said P.S. 41 father Fred Moshary: "Parents anywhere would have done the same thing." Those words were prophetic. At week's end, parents of second-graders in nearby Queens had raised...
Each successive scene tells the story of another assassin in a similar way. The assassins' stories are fictitiously intertwined: Charles Guiteau, who eventually assassinated James Garfield; Leon Czolgosz, who killed William McKinley; Guiseppe Zangara, who attempted to assassinate Franklin D. Roosevelt; would-be Gerald Ford assassins Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme and Sara Jane Moore; Sam Byck, who plotted to kill Nixon; and John Hinckley, who shot Ronald Reagan. The time gap separating each of the assassinations (or attempted assassinations) is given no heed: placing these disparate events side by side allows them to interact in a kind of fantastic sphere that...
...lunacy as he is observed recording tapes of his complaints to Leonard Bernstein, imploring him to write more love songs ("What the world needs now is love, sweet love," he cries). Weber's portrayal of the Santa-Claus-suit-clad Byck was convincing, if a little surreal. Giuseppe Zangara (Edward Ha '97), like Czologsz, is a skeptic of capitalism, but his smaller role and reduced presence in the play makes him harder to characterize...
...performers are powerful actors and singers and create convincing portraits of the assassins. Abe Sylvia's portrayal of Czolgosz is heart wrenching, Matt Walton (John Wilkes Booth) and Brian Mack (Zangara) are similarly captivating. Strong-voiced Jennifer Zimmerman makes a wonderfully comedian Sara Jane Moore...