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1960-1993The Negro Ensemble Company was founded in 1967 as the indirect result of an article written by playwright/actor Douglas Turner Ward at the request of the New York Times. In the August 1966 article entitled, "American Theatre: for Whites Only? " Ward called for theatre from the black point of view with black playwrights writing of their experience for primarily, though not exclusively, the black audience, as well as the establishment "of a permanent black repertory company of at least off-Broadway size and dimension", to decide, promote and oversee their own creative destiny. (At the time Ward was starring in the production of two of his own one-act plays, Happy Ending and Day of Absence, which was produced by actor Robert Hooks. Ward enjoyed a very successful 500-performance run at the St. Mark's Playhouse, in the East Village, New York City, where Gerald Krone, general manager of the playhouse, was the manager of the show.)
After reading the article, an executive of the Ford Foundation contacted Ward to ask exactly what he had in mind. As the story goes, Ward sat down with friends and colleagues Robert Hooks and Gerald Krone to discuss the establishment of a repertory company that would produce work germane to black life, wit
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Volume 15, Issue 2 (29) / 2024 - Integral (PDF)
Philosophical Avenues
Adrian Muraru, Advanced schools in Caesarea Maritima during the third century AD
Abstract: A short overview of Caesarea Maritima is succeeded by an examination of the schools dedicated to advanced learning in the capital of the Roman province of Palaestina during the third century AD. Although the available evidence is limited, it appears that these schools were quite numerous, primarily concentrating on religious education.
Keywords: Caesarea Maritima, schools, third century AD
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Albert Piette, Back to the substance: Interpreting Aristotle for a radical anthropology
Abstract: This article is presented as a reading of Aristotle, in particular his Metaphysics. It is not a philosophical or philological commentary. Written by an anthropologist on the basis of Aristotle’s propositions, it is a plea for observation of the human being as a substantial unit. It proposes a radical change of scale for social and cultural anthropology, which is accustomed to observing social and cultural facts. By drawing on Aristotelian lexicon (substance, substratum, movement, predicate), the article attempts to clarify some possible points of observation of a human being in his sin