Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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SamShepard, brashest of the "new breed" playwrights, would have us believe this is the typical family in pursuit of the American dream, and nearly succeeds. His Obie-Award-winning Curse of the Starving Class, given its premiere in a strong, spare production by the Reality Theater and the Suffolk Theater Company, batters us with symbolism and seduces us with humanity. It never fails to provoke, but still comes up short of theatrical mastery. Having garnered an Obie and a Pulitzer (for the recent New York production of Buried Child) in two years, Shepard seems on the verge of his finest...
...members of the starving class," his wife maintains desperately. Ella plans to sell the house her lawyer friend and lover, Taylor, who wants to build a housing development. "Everyone wants a piece of land," he declares, "so pitch in and play ball, or you'll lose." Meanwhile, Weston has traded the house to the local tavern owner, a degenerate called Ellis, to pay his debts...
...fall of 1968, Black students at Harvard demanded an increase in the number of Black students admitted, and the right to recruit in Third World communities in hopes of increasing the working class Third World population, a group hitherto ignored...
...Security Act (ERISA) requires pension trustees to direct investments "solely in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries." While activists may argue that preserving union jobs and the long-term economic viability of urban areas is a legitimate financial interest of union members, socially-oriented investment decisions might invite class-action suits by members pursuing a narrower interpretation of the law. Rifkin and Barber suggest that unions could continue to maximize returns by confining their investments to companies with desirable labor policies within the Fortune 500. ERISA administrator Ian Lanoff appears sympathetic to this viewpoint...
...play, and others who decide to take their talents elsewhere. As recruiting competition warms, Harvard is caught treading what Stoeckel terms "the fine line." The admissions committee must increase the efficiency of its recruiting process without compromising its standards--and this goal, as those involved selecting a given freshman class concede, is not readily or easily achieved...