Last night, in a horrific ending to a truly great television program, “Medium” concluded its successful seven-year run on network television. CBS rescued the show after a five-year run on NBC; but after two seasons on its network, CBS drew down the hammer and cancelled the show.
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American historian Howard Zinn died in January at the age of 87 — but Zinn will live forever in the Panopticonic infamy of a 423-page FBI dossier.
The Greeks had a way of constructing the character of a person on stage in a dramatic presentation: Ethical Habit of Action. You learn to understand a person based not on what they say, but rather on how they behave. Don’t believe what you’re told. Believe only what you see. It is the bundled experience of the form — the habit of action — that defines us… and not the brittle persona many believe is the true and ethical morality of the person.
After 38 years of university teaching and administrating, Howard Stein retired from Columbia University in 1992. His career included 11 years at the Yale School of Drama, where he was Associate Dean and Supervisor of the Playwriting Program; seven years at the University of Iowa, where he supervised the Playwriting Program; and 10 years at Columbia University where he was appointed the first permanent Chairman of the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies and Supervisor of the Playwriting Program.
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