Word: call
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These ventures in dramatic exploration are also intimately related to an attempt to bridge the we-they gap in the actor-audience relationship-what is popularly called "participatory" theater. In the hands of the Living Theater, this has proved hostile and abrasive, a kind of tyrannical coercion toward brotherhood. An avant-garde group in Los Angeles called The Company is proving that a different approach can produce a loving sense of affinity and communal affection. They have done little-known plays by Ann Jellicoe, who authored The Knack, Megan Terry, who authored Viet Rock, and an adaptation of Lawrence Ferlinghetti...
That one of the patients finally succeeds in committing suicide is stark tragedy. That another has reached the point where he is able to mourn death sounds a call of hope. Who has never heard an inner voice beckoning him to acts of madness? David Sawyer's film pierces the darkness that results when other voices overwhelm the rational mind...
...sausage," as Israeli officials call the pipeline, is their country's largest single construction job. The line was built by Mekorot, Israel's water-development company, which set a round-the-clock working schedule. The mammoth earth-moving equipment gouged great ditches across the harsh route, while 180 metalworkers, a third of them American, worked in 104° heat. In the rush to finish, welders were offered $10 extra for each weld that they made over 60 during a single shift; some of the men earned $3,000 a month, plus expenses and amenities. Even ice-making machinery...
...sense that in the U.S., whites, collectively and historically, have been and still are a disaster for blacks. He refused to be grateful for empty favors. "Fm not going to sit at your table," he once said, "and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner." In retrospect, what seems most remarkable was the range of his intellectual change and growth. The final phase of that growth-marked by his separation from the Black Muslim movement and the founding of the Organization of Afro-American Unity-had only begun when he was shot down...
...continue to call ourselves homosexuals, not bisexual, even if we do make it with the opposite sex also, because saying. "Oh, I'm Bi" is a cop out for a gay. We get told it's ok to sleep with guys as long as we sleep with women, too, and that's still putting homosexuality down. We'll be gay until everyone has forgotten that it's an issue. Then we'll begin to be complete...