The Bootblack Stand
The Bootblack Stand Dr. George Washington Plunket, our prize-winning political analyst, has just completed a penetrating study of the last Congolese election. Published in August, it focuses on...
...Everyone disports about doing his own delightful thing: Life is elegant and exhilarating...
...And who took the eng~es off all their cycles...
...In itself this might seem a matter of little moment but its significance is really quite grave, for now the Bolsheviks know that our senators, heretofore judged as the most comely solons on the globe, are artificially preserved...
...Now, through this column, the distinguished Dr...
...Kerr must be myopic) bacchant~ inviting members of the audience to shed inhibitions and join the players on stage...
...When journalists report their findings that, say, a Senator eats his beans from a can or sleeps in his suit, it is an annoyance for the esteemed representative of the people...
...wearing a pair of dark sun glasses, apparently to hide from the view of the people a couple of black eyes around his eyes...
...We must be honest "about our motivations...
...Thus, this doctrine about the people's right to know is butter for every, journalist's bread and should ipso facto he consldered ethical and indeed sacred...
...of Philosophy The New York Post Dear Mr...
...Philip L. Geyelin Editor, The Washington Post Dear Mr...
...I greatly enjoyed the very nude, very naughty Dirtiest Show in Town, not, certainly, because of its story," which was minimal, in fact barely existent...
...He simply packed all those eastern journalists onto The Spirit oJ 76 and flew them to Kansas City...
...So that's what it was...
...In fact, they all look alike to me...
...Hamfll: How astonished I am to see that even a serious journalist like yourself has fallen for Mr...
...Address all correspondence to The Bootbhck Stand, The Establishment, R.R...
...A New Demand Response System...
...Surely you should have known that the real China is one of the glories of the globe...
...Think of the propaganda coup...
...The tendency to implicate others in one's less noble activities is always a danger, but am I simply rationalizing by thinking that it's precisely the kicks of voyeurism, legally sanctionf<l, as it were, that account for the success of things like Dirtiest Show...
...When several courageous and, I might add, dedicated representatives of the media asked him about these mysterious black eyes he had the temerity and, I might add, guile to say "no comment !" Is this not a violation of the people's right to know...
...The essential question is "Can I or can I not make a buck from it...
...The American Theatre 1969-1970 is the third in a series of annual publications, a good book by which to learn what's up in the theatre at present...
...Tolerance and diversity abound and there are flowers, always flowers...
...Nixon's trip, there are no blacks among the government and party leadership...
...This whole China thing is an elaborate hoax by Mr...
...As with so many other things it boris down to a question of ethics...
...George Washington PlunkRt, our prize-winning political analyst, has just completed a penetrating study of the last Congolese election...
...Under such conditions public service loses all of its allure, and promising politicians depart for more profitable fields like journalism, for instance...
...it can be purchased in all bookstores...
...experiencing jostling genitals in my face, at a play, is a bit disquieting...
...They have made him out to be a great yearner for peace...
...Plunkitt: For years now I have been increasingly aware of the enlightened qualities |1 IIIIIII wa " y, which includes off-off B and offoff-off B, is up - - down and up, that is, in the eyes of this book's contributors...
...It is titled Escape...
...Walter Kerr of the New York Times leads off with a snappy overview of trends, his writing, as usual, more than competent...
...Geyelin: This whole matter of the people's right to know is an enormously complicated issue...
...Kerr talks of the '~rheatre of ~herapy'," which he says is "with us everywhere, in the dithyrambic abandon of a suddenly topless (sic...
...Regards, Pete Hamril Dept...
...What is Red China anyway, a Rockefeller fiefdora...
...There are some questions that are best left unasked...
...The people in the streets all look just like participants at 4-H Club Conventions...
...We all know of theatre-in-the-round and in-the-square, but theatre in and around the audience is less familiar to most Americans...
...Published in August, it focuses on the unique position of minority groups in the Congolese electoral process...
...GWP Dear Mr...
...Those drab scenes you are seeing on television are downtown Kansas City...
...But when a journalist is inveterately exposing, say, pay-offs between senators and HEW bureaucrats, this is a more serious matter...
...Dear Mr...
...Nixon's landing in Peking was decidedly unyoung, unblack, and ungay...
...What is more he is undertaking a dangerous hair transplant...
...You can perhaps imagine my surprise when I observed that the Chinese delegation greeting Mr...
...Schechner's piece is leaden, but the trends he describes are intriguing...
...I admit again to a somewhat fusty attitude at the start toward theatre in which the players literally lunge at me...
...In "Again from the Razed Grom~, an Experience of .the Theatre, 1920-70," Harold Clurman, one of the long-time giants of the American theatre (actor, then dramatist, now critic), offers a The Alternative April 1972 19...
...GWP II of the Performing Garage tells us about this is his essay, "Post Proscenium...
...Long hair is suppressed...
...They have given him wave after wave of headlines...
...Now that reporters have been buzzing around poor Senator Proxmire, the word is out that those black eyes are the aftermath of a face lifting...
...Clearly Broadway is down...
...And all the while he has been mending political fences with America's agricultural barons...
...Nixon's latest scheme...
...Hell man, downtown Peking looked just like I imagine downtown Kansas City must appear...
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...But in the very few productions I~'e subsequent ly seen in which the players (not their genitals, however) bobbed around midst the audience, I found myself more interested, more involved, less put-off...
...You have been had...
...I hope the latter accounts at least for my disenchantment with the present theatre, but frankly I ' m not sure...
...off-BroadNow, of course, the newspapers can make a great deal of money by snooping around and turning up juicy talesabout public figures...
...Plunkitt has agreed to advise American statesmen in this time of troubles...
...A kind of attenuated bell bottom seems to be allowed, but there is no grass...
...On the other hand, for the politician the doctrine can prove annoying and when taken to its extreme it can even debilitate a nation's polity...
...In fact from what I have been able to discern from the television coverage of Mr...
...Richard Schechner of the Chinese People's Republic...
...When discussing the afore-mentioned Dionysus in 69, for instance, Mr...
...This is something the good government crowd never seems to understand...
...Plunkitt: On February 8 Senator Proxmire was seen in Washington, D.C...
...Poking around in other people's, affairs has been one of the great triumphs of journalism and making the commonplace or the trivial juicy is what distinguishes the mediocre journalist from the virtuoso...
...What kind of government will you have if the Halls of Congress are inhabited by mediocrities...
...It is this kind of publicity that has given graft a bad name, and driven competent men from public life...
...Nixon to attract attention to himself and away from the horrors of'modern Amerika...
Vol. 5 • April 1972 • No. 7
