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"He is an excellent symbol of achievement and compassion for young people of all ethnic and cultural backgrounds," Counter added.
...experience, when given a choice between compassion and noncompassion, Bush invariably takes the noncompassionate path," says Elliott Naishtat, a Democrat who chairs the powerful house committee on human services, which handled the welfare bills. "Punishing the kids to get the mom to cooperate is not acceptable and not compassionate. You don't have to do it that...
So how does this relate to the issue of house lights? In my mind, one of the great shortcomings of theater--at least as a moral force--is that the sympathy we extend to characters while we are part of an audience rarely carries over into our everyday lives. The...
How to remedy this problem? Keeping the house lights up throughout a production is not necessarily the answer. Doing so might prevent the audience from entering that sublime state of non-existence where compassion becomes easier than judgment. On the other hand, keeping the house lights down the entire time...
One way around this problem is to catch the audience off-guard, to confront them with their own existence while they're in that state of nonjudgment. To have the actors in a production approach individual members of the audience during the production--to surprise the audience with the fact...