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Shoppers were lured by such exotic wares as Nigerian cotton shirts, jars of sand and gravel from different parts of the world, Polish boxes, trays and dolls, several volumes from the 1830 Encyclopedia Britannica, and costumes from a 1920s marching band...
...voice for the American theater. A self-taught man who dropped out of school in the ninth grade, Wilson, 41, announced ambitions for a cycle of ten plays meant to reveal black life in each decade of this century. Ma Rainey depicted the self- imposed racial isolation of a 1920s blues singer. His second play to reach Broadway, Fences, which opened last week, portrays the frustration of a former Negro-leagues baseball player in the industrial North of the 1950s, a boom time that is passing this man by. Too old to make the move to the majors, too much...
...Kennedy came of age with the New Deal and World War II. Says Schlesinger: "In general, we have 30-year cycles based on generations. Just as the 1980s were a re- enactment of the 1950s, the Eisenhower time was a re-enactment of the Harding- Coolidge time of the 1920s. So at 30-year intervals -- Theodore Roosevelt in 1901, F.D.R. in '33, Kennedy in '61 -- we have a swing from private interest, from self-interest, to public purpose." By Schlesinger's calculation, the cyclical change now beginning should reach full momentum around...
...jacket walks back and forth along the aisles of the theater, gabbling into a microphone about the auteurist theory of stage direction. Then he drags recalcitrant actors from the wings and introduces them by their real names. After angry debate, they undertake to improvise scenes that will define their 1920s Sicilian characters, only to have the speaker break in and say they have talked enough. All the while, an impish man uses a video camera to record the proceedings and simultaneously project them onto a screen at center stage. The cameraman narrates a "documentary" of random black-and-white footage...
This year Corey T. Brennan, a fourth-yeargraduate student in classics and a tutor in AdamsHouse, will host an orgy of Hawaiian Steel Guitarmusic, which he says, "will feature Roy Smeck, theEddie Van Halen of the 1920s." Other orgies, suchas the one on George Gershwin, feature Broadwaymusic, another musical genre normally aired on thestation...