December 2008
12 posts
Pinter the actor in Catastrophe
The play can be viewed as an allegory on the power of totalitarianism and the struggle to oppose it, the protagonist representing people ruled by dictators (the director and his aide). By “tweak[ing] him until his clothing and posture project the required image of pitiful dejectedness”[2], they exert their control over the silenced figure. “The Director’s reifying of the Protagonist...
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In 1968, Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson invited Kitt to a celebrity women’s luncheon at the White House to offer her views on inner-city youth. Taking the event seriously, not as a publicity stunt, Kitt pointedly criticized the Vietnam War and its impact on poor minorities. An infuriated Johnson put out the word that Kitt’s rudeness had reduced the First Lady to tears, and Kitt found...
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Giving a Goat for Xmas
These gifts are degrading to people, not animal
By focusing on alleviating the most crude manifestations of poverty, NGOs(Non Governmental Organizations) are denying poor people in the developing world any realistic chance of achieving material comfort. Here in the West, magazines advertise gifts for men and women who ‘have everything’, but when it comes to the developing world, the prevailing...
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