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Freedom And Dignity: Barrie Stavis's Drama Of Forged Character In An Age Of Emptiness, Daniel Larner

Fairhaven Faculty Publications

It is in this context that Barrie Stavis, since the early 1940's, has labored in the American and European theater, staking out ground for the conviction that strong minds and hearts can make a difference, and that understanding the world we live in and improving it is our greatest good. He has fought for a theater in which the center of our concerns can be the great issues of human welfare and survival, of governance and justice, of law and right, rather than those issues that preoccupy the popular magazines and the gossip tabloids - the question of whether a …