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...burgeoning payday-loan industry includes publicly owned companies. Ace Cash Express, Inc., of Irving, Texas, operates more than 900 stores in 28 states and the District of Columbia where it cashes checks, sells lottery tickets and provides money-transfer and bill-paying services. At a third of its stores, Ace offers payday loans. Its stock is traded on the NASDAQ...
...often easier to express contraries in literature than life, particularly when they involve that murky thing known as character-what lies behind personality, through artifice, beneath facade, and within the heart...
...vision of the function of theater. If theater is to function strictly as a form of entertainment then it doesn't really matter whether you're entertaining the same 20 people or a different 200 people every week. If theater is strictly a form of self-expression, then again the size and diversity of the audience is of little consequence. The focus of theater lies in such cases in the opportunity it provides for actors or directors or writers to express their thoughts and feelings more than in the number of people who hear those thoughts and feelings...
...actors strutting and fretting their hour upon the stage is laughable. But history, at least, is on the side of such a grand design. It is not without reason that theater attendance in ancient Greece was a civic duty, that of all the means of entertainment and expression in Renaissance England theater was the most closely censored by the crown (and that theatrical censorship was the last form of censorship to be lifted in England, not officially ending until the 1960s), that social agitators from Voltaire to Vaclav Havel to Wole Soyinka all turned to drama to express their ideas...
...attention to an issue that is of far greater importance than it may at first appear. Theater, unlike almost any other activity on campus or off, has a unique responsibility to expand its circle of adherents. Let plays be entertaining. Let plays offer actors and directors a chance to express themselves. But also let them change lives, slowly and unnoticeably. And through that slow, unrecognizable change in individuals, let them change the world...