Word: focus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CENTER of both this production and its plot is David Hammond, who serves as stage director while also playing Dr. Filke, the vengeful young man who is the focus of all the intrigue. Outfitted in tails and cane. Hammond looks like a Beerbohm cartoon for the endpapers of a Firbank novel. Little wonder, then, that he is exactly into the spirit of the piece...
Next week's "peace fast" is the focus of December Moratorium activities, the third in a series of what HMC calls monthly "escalating protests" against...
...know much about Ishmael Reed, but from reading his book. I imagine he'd make an incredibly good drunk. His writing is like that, sky high and reeling along, everything just enough out of focus so that you get the feeling he's tilted the whole world a few degrees his way and he's letting you in on what he sees. What you see and what you don't is up to your imagination. Reed has a lot to say about what he thinks this country has been up to in the past 200 years...
...think that Richard Brautigan is crazy. Granted, he was the focus of a crazy Saturday night, but that doesn't make him crazy. In fact, he's the most lucid person I've heard in quite a while. It was the context of the reading (created largely by my own expectations), not Brautigan's poetry, that accounted for the craziness...
...urbane upper-middle class of the coasts ridicules Nixon's mumbling about the silent majority. In Alabama, when a kid from a small town goes to Harvard he can never feel safe in that town again. The eyes of the haggard speechwriters and secretaries are too tired to focus on the Tobacco Road slums five blocks away from the Capitol. When we get excited because a half-million of us have gathered so close to the White House we forget that four times as many people have attended college football games the same...