Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...curious that my friend Henri Cartier-Bresson should assail my friend Ansel Adams [Sept. 3] for "doing pictures of rocks" instead of being socially committed while "the world is falling to pieces." Except for a couple of chilling end-of-the-war shots of Nazi collaborators being interrogated in his homeland, and poignant images of quilted Chinese peasants playing mah-jongg during the fall/liberation of Nationalist Peking, not a single Cartier-Bresson photograph comes to mind about any of the world's miseries covered by other, often less gifted but more involved photographers...
...first he thought he was being paranoid, or just "too sensitive," as his white friends put it, when he told them of his misgivings about auditioning for a Loeb play. An aspiring student actor, Gerald Hail '81 tried to forget about the butterflies in his stomach and --accompanied by a white friend--walked into the Loeb Drama Center two weeks ago to audition for "The Royal Family," an upcoming mainstage production...
When director Timothy Garry '81 began to call up actors in groups of four, Hail and his friend went in to audition together. Hail waited for what he and his friend later agreed was an unusually long time, as his friend read for several roles, including the male leads. When Garry finally called Hail to audition, Garry told him to read the role of Jo, the family butler; Garry listened, politely thanked him, and called for the next group of actors...
...does it with good humor, laughing at the deluge. He does it with courage, calling on strife-torn Boston to forsake racial violence. He does it with simple humility--"the Pope is your friend," he says to the largest cheers of the day. But most of all he wins Boston Common with his larger-than-Catholic personality. People don't just honor or respect him, they fall in love, in part because that is what he wants...
...women of all creeds and ethnic origins, children and youth, fathers and mothers, the sick and the elderly--that God loves you, that he has given you a dignity as human beings that is beyond compare. I want to tell everyone that the Pope is your friend and a servant of your humanity. On this first day of my visit, I wish to express my esteem and love for America itself, for the experience that began two centuries ago and that carries the name "United States of America"; for the past achievements of this land and for its dedication...